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Re:Go and Swift take another step up the programming languag... by bjz_ on Thursday December 04, 2014 @07:16PM (#8702477)
One of the big things for Apple was Objective-C compatibility, which is surprisingly hard to get right. I know because I have been trying to wrap the APIs for Rust. Don't get me wrong: I still would prefer to use Rust on iOS, but Apple has too much invested in their Objective-C APIs to force a subpar experience and migration path onto their developers.
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Re:Go and Swift take another step up the programming languag... by sanderjd on Friday December 05, 2014 @10:36AM (#8705002)
You certainly know more about this than me. Do you think Rust would have been fundamentally more difficult to make compatible with Objective-C than Swift was, assuming Apple had invested the same amount of time and effort? My sense is "no", but I really don't have any clue, and I'm genuinely curious.
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