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by kragil 410 days ago
How is it outdated??

Their GitHub has 0,3% Swift code. They said they start once Swift 6 is out. It has been out for months. So either they abandoned Swift or haven’t really started or they are really really slow to start using it. All three options are against the article being outdated, wouldn’t you agree?
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favorited 410 days ago
One of the primary Ladybird devs just gave a lightning talk at CppCon about porting their HTML parser from C++ to Swift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCRx1jE6DnY

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circl_lastname 410 days ago
Current blockers to swift usage are found here: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933 Rising tide lifts all boats, by trying to use Swift seriously, they're finding and helping fix bugs in the compiler
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ironmagma 410 days ago
Because the article is from 2022 and says that they will use a custom language called Jakt which didn't pan out, it seems. Yes, I am also eager for the Swift rewrite to get off the ground.
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pjmlp 410 days ago
Mostly because the author switched focus to yet another language, and eventually decided to focus on something else instead of programming languages.

https://github.com/sophiajt/june

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