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by fainpul 198 days ago
The commenter I replied to seems to like Kotlin. Swift is extremely close to Kotlin in syntax and features, but is not for the JVM. Swift also has a lot of similarities with Rust, if you ignore the fact that it has a garbage collector.
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adastra22 198 days ago
A Kotlin for Rust would be a drop-in replacement where you could have a crate or even just a module written in this hypothetical language and it just works. No bridging or FFI. That’s not Swift.
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fainpul 198 days ago
You all need to stop with the hair-splitting – it's tiresome.

My intention was to offer something that might be of interest to the person I replied to – not to write the official definition of "Kotlin for Rust" which everybody has to agree to. If you think my answer is nonsense, just skip it and read the next one. No need to reply. Nobody profits from this discourse.

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