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