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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by teaearlgraycold on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:15PM (#46842294)
What company is using Swift outside of Apple-specific development?
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by odo1242 on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:27PM (#46842385)
Doesn’t affect the validity of your comment whatsoever, but there was the attempt by the Browser Company to implement Arc on Windows in SwiftUI lol
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by frizlab on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:39PM (#46842461)
Not a lot, but has absolutely no relation whatsoever to my comment.
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by alwillis on Saturday January 31, 2026 @08:29PM (#46842750)
Arc, TBCNY's browser for macOS and Windows uses Swift [1] [2].

Their newer Dia browser which is meant to be cross-platform also uses Swift.

[1]: https://speakinginswift.substack.com/p/swift-tooling-windows...

[2]: "How we're building the Arc Browser Windows app with Swift" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa_fNuaSE_I

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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by Imustaskforhelp on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:06PM (#46842949)
> What company is using Swift outside of Apple-specific development?

Skip allows to "Build truly native iPhone and Android apps with Skip" so technically skip runs swift on android which is outside of Apple-specific development.

They also recently got open source from their closed source model prior from what I can tell

https://skip.dev/

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