Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
by Someone on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:57AM
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Swift? I know Apple says they intend it to be usable for OS development, but I would want to see some real OS work (either from them or from others) before being convinced it is a real contender (or is there, and did I miss it?)
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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
by pjmlp on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:29AM
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Officially launchd and the Dock are now written in Swift (disclosed at WWDC 2017), so even though they aren't drivers or something, they are already a bit lower level than just apps.
Swift 4.0 got all the Unsafe* APIs stabilized, maybe they would be using it a bit more.
In any case, Apple also suffers an Objective-C vs Swift, just like Microsoft used to have C# (Longhorn, Singularity, Midori) vs C++.
Which means, even if it possible to use a certain language from technology point of view, many political wars have to be won as well.