Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra...
by eridius on Monday April 10, 2017 @04:01PM
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Apple didn't replace Obj-C. They added Swift alongside it. Literally nobody is being forced to switch, and all of Apple's frameworks are still written in Obj-C (they can't be written in Swift until Swift has ABI stability).
Yes, Apple's weight helped Swift tremendously. But people are switching from Obj-C to Swift because they think it's better, not because Apple's making them.
> How much of Swift is written out of Apple ecosystem? Not much.
Not much yet, because the Linux support is still missing a lot, but it's being filled in quickly, and a lot of people seem to be excited about being able to start using Swift on Linux.
Yes, Apple's weight helped Swift tremendously. But people are switching from Obj-C to Swift because they think it's better, not because Apple's making them.
> How much of Swift is written out of Apple ecosystem? Not much.
Not much yet, because the Linux support is still missing a lot, but it's being filled in quickly, and a lot of people seem to be excited about being able to start using Swift on Linux.