[a1a106ed5]

On a brighter note, apple is currently in the process of converting almost all iMessage components to Swift for this reason. I'm sure it is taking many engineering hours, and image parsers/open source libraries like this are the most difficult to convert.

[saagarjha]

Just one component, the one that parses incoming messages. The problem here is that it parsed the message and decided to pass it to ImageIO, which is written in C++.

[lenkite]

Is there a link that mentions this ? The bug was in the ImageIO/Core Graphics layer so are they re-writing all Core Graphics components in Swift ?

[smoldesu]

Yeah, something tells me that they're not going to be rewriting an image decoder to have a runtime...

[zionic]

Let’s hope they make swift work of it

[mensetmanusman]

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