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Re:Porting Swift to Haiku by yardie on Friday June 23, 2017 @07:12AM (#14618314)
> who cares about Swift?

Someone, obviously, cares. They took the time to port it.

These same sentiments were said about another alternative open source OS 20 years ago. And yet, here we are 20 years later and it powers everything from supercomputers to mobile phones and TVs

Re:Porting Swift to Haiku by Quequau on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:11AM (#14618880)
> Someone, obviously, cares. They took the time to port it.

Yeah, and I have to figure that with Swift being Apple's darling right now that there's the opportunity to attract more interest from idle developers that otherwise wouldn't have given Haiku a moment's thought.