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Re:Swift Static Linux SDK by coldtea on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @05:17PM (#40651604)
>Swift also took a bunch of goodies from Rust - No garbage collector - Traits via "protocol"

I'd say they took them from Apple's own Objective-C additions who had those for decades before Rust (ARC and protocols).

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Re:Swift Static Linux SDK by Klonoar on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @06:14PM (#40652248)
This is correct.
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Re:Swift Static Linux SDK by favorited on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @06:16PM (#40652269)
Yeah, Objective-C Protocols are so old that they influenced Interfaces in Java 1.0.
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