Ladybird: Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

Re:Ladybird: Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift... by stephc_int13 on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @08:15PM (#47068697)

The best tool for the job is the one you know and love.

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Re:Ladybird: Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift... by TbobbyZ on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @08:30PM (#47068801)

I have not developed a deep love for a language yet. Swift has been interesting me, but so has Zig.

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Re:Ladybird: Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift... by stephc_int13 on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @08:44PM (#47068881)

Then you should consider Lindy effect. Newer languages have counter-intuitively a shorter life expectancy than older ones.

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Re:Ladybird: Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift... by valenterry on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @08:49PM (#47068906)

By that definition you will be stuck on the first language you love.

And someone will be stuck not to do anything because they are unsatisfied with all languages. :-)

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Re:Ladybird: Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift... by cosmic_cheese on Thursday February 19, 2026 @01:01AM (#47070414)

It depends. Many languages are a poor fit for certain use cases, and some are bad at everything beyond a very specific niche. Some are rather unpleasant to write any kind of substantial UI with.

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Re:Ladybird: Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift... by stephc_int13 on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:05AM (#47073849)

Of course, writing a bootloader in Matlab or a MMORPG in Visual Basic would be masochistic. But these days people are writing CLI tools and TUI in Typescript...

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