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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by pjmlp on Sunday August 12, 2018 @12:47PM (#17745179)
> But you will not write a kernel in Swift as you will lose performance all over the place.

That used to be the argument against C and C++ in the 80 and 90's regarding 16 bit home computers.

Any serious developer would know that Assembly was the only proper way to write software that required real performance.

Yet a couple of decades later.

> But the 3D engines are written in C or C++.

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