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Re:Swift Ownership Manifesto by lockhouse on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:43PM (#36220689)
Not for all cases, sure. It would be challenging to write an OS kernel or low level device firmware in Swift, but for a lot of other use cases it is absolutely a viable alternative to C and C++.
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Re:Swift Ownership Manifesto by MBCook on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @08:26PM (#36221070)
Apple is doing exactly that. They’ve already shipped stuff written that way. I think the Secure Enclave code is now Swift.

I’m pretty sure they have extra stuff on top at the moment to help them write ultra-strong/safe code that the released language doesn’t support directly yet.

But they are moving in that direction. Just because most people use Swift as a language where they don’t have to worry about memory allocation and with the large standard library doesn’t mean that’s all it can do.

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