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by askonomm 481 days ago
I don't think they'd use Swift for GUI building. Ladybird's GUI's are platform-dependent (Qt on Linux, AppKit on Mac, etc). From what I understand they want to use Swift as a replacement for C++.

I haven't done a lot of Swift, but I did play around with it recently, and it seems to work fine even outside of the Apple ecosystem. It has a LSP you can use so you don't need XCode, they even develop a first-class plugin for VSCode.
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pjmlp 481 days ago
It is very ruff, you cannot rely on random packages to actually work cross platform, a bit like .NET Core early days.
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iamkonstantin 480 days ago
The idea of a future where Swift can be productive on non-Apple systems is definitely in place. The reality is that it will be several years before the tooling is mature enough to consider for time/cost sensitive endeavours. That is, if Apple maintains their interest in that direction by then.
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