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Well I for one appreciate Swift’s focus on ergonomics and progressive disclosure. I think Rust is great, but I don’t see it as a great application-level programming language. I thi…

Rust is much less ergonomic than Swift, especially for application-level development. I like to think about it like this: Rust forces you to think about memory where Swift doesn’t.…

Swift has had first-class C interop for a long time. It is only C++ interop that is more experimental/in-progress.

First of all, traditional (tracing) GCs require more expensive runtimes and consume much more memory. ARCs are also much more predictable in their behavior and pave the way for gre…

https://github.com/apple/swift-for-wasm-examples?tab=readme-...

I don't think this blog post ever intended to provide a comprehensive comparison between Swift/Vapor and other languages/frameworks. I think the bigger lesson from this writeup is …

Swift has a pretty good VSCode extension these days actually. Check out https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sswg.swi...

Yeah I get that it's frustrating. But it is open source, and there isn't anything stopping you or anyone else from making contributions that bring the language to more places. Sure…

How recent were your experiences? The server-side Swift ecosystem has matured over the past few years, with specific attention from teams at Apple. For example, regarding JSON, the…

For sure! Yeah I think a lot of people don’t realize that there’s actually a ton of really interesting work going on in Swift that is very relevant to the current conversation arou…

I wonder what the author thinks about Swift’s new C++ interop story? Since the Swift compiler includes Clang, and can thus compile both your C++ and Swift into LLVM IR, without the…