OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out

Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by ksec on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @11:12PM (#17140787)

I think Apple do plan to rewrite some or large part of macOS. The problem is they surely want to do it in Swift, but Swift is no where near ready or stable enough for that use. Swift 5 were suppose to get ABI stability, may be that will be announced in WWDC.

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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by pjmlp on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:21AM (#17143235)

They already rewrote launchd and the Dock last year.

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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by wool_gather on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:59AM (#17143497)

I don't disbelieve you, but do you have a reference for this? `nm /sbin/launchd` doesn't show anything that looks like Swift. Searching ASCII WWDC turns up nothing. All I can find is you saying it a couple of times here on Hacker News. :)

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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by pjmlp on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:52AM (#17143940)

What is new in Swift, WWDC 2017.

Later I can cross-check it.

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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by wool_gather on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:46PM (#17146432)

Thanks, I'll take a look.

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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by pjmlp on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:24PM (#17147363)

Sorry it appears to be the wrong one. I will need to track down the talk.

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