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by smoldesu 1277 days ago
Maybe Apple should write libraries for their GUI toolkits, then. It's awfully hard to beg people to write native apps for you when people need to learn a new language to do it.
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And when that new language is Swift. Coming from Rust Swift is hard to take.
That's more-or-less what I'm getting at. Apple can't replace Objective-C with Swift and expect people to not cock their head. They can either support a pre-existing language (like Microsoft with Rust) or home-bake something suitable for low-level development. Telling developers to not use the stuff they want to use sorta leaves their hands tied.
Microsoft's Rust support is basically non-existing for GUI applications, Rust/WinRT is miles away from achiving C++/WinRT parity, even more so with C#.

In its current state is only useful for CLI or services, unless you feel like doing WinUI team's work for free.