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But freestanding is not experimental, unlike Embedded Swift according to Apple. And there are full, large OS kernels written in C and C++. You continue being undeniably, completely…

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But at least a lot of tasks in a kernel would require something else than reference counting, unless it can be guaranteed that the reference counting is optimized away or something…

Even kernel development? Do you know of kernels where reference counting is the norm? Please do mention examples.

The practical reality is arguably more important than beliefs. Apple has, as it turns out, invested in trying to make Swift more suitable for kernel and similar development, like t…