It's mostly just clean UI that I like. And that it's in Swift, makes it easier to contribute than C.
Am I blinkered in that I expect people contributing to a media player to know C, or do you mean in terms of working with the walls of apple's garden (haven't touched an apple product for five years now so I've never used swift)
In addition it seems to be just an UI over mpv, which is written in C.
Re:VLC and Qt – A History [video]
by jagannatharjun on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:54AM
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Qt is only used for linux and windows. AFAIK UI for Mac will be written with Cocoa or something like that
Re:VLC and Qt – A History [video]
by tristan957 on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:54AM
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VLC is C++
Did you watch the presentation? He stressed that VLC is only C at its core. Of course whenever they interface with Qt they call into C++, maybe also in some other plugins.
I can scarcely imagine a descriptor more empty of meaning than "modern", in this context.