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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by sealeck on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:18PM (#46842314)
Go has a critical mass that Swift clearly doesn't (i.e. there are many, many companies who have net profits of >$1bn and write most of their server software in Go).

Additionally Google isn't selling Go as a product in the same way as Apple does Swift (and where Google does publish public Go APIs it also tends to use them in the same way as their users do, so the interests are more aligned)...

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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by behnamoh on Saturday January 31, 2026 @08:37PM (#46842797)
> Additionally Google isn't selling Go as a product in the same way as Apple does Swift

Hmm, Apple isn't selling Swift as a product either; it's literally what they needed for their own platform, much like how GOOG needed Go for their server works.

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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by sealeck on Sunday February 01, 2026 @05:02AM (#46844977)
Apple is selling Swift as a product - it is their preferred interface for constructing iOS applications!
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by pjmlp on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:09AM (#46853620)
Kubernetes and Docker, CNCF is full of commercial products.
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by sealeck on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:03PM (#46893766)
Go is an implementation detail for Kubernetes and Docker...
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