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For small apps I use exclusively SwiftUI for anything more complicated I use a combo of Sciter and Swift (courtesy of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=c-smile ). There are stil…

Yeah but when you get old enough you get sacked and cant get employed anywhere and have to start frying chicken. So..

Yea there is no incentive. Why use Swift on the server or in k8s when you have gazillion other languages that are performant and have the ecosystems.

If Swift was paired with smh like QT/GTK (could have replaced Vala) it would've been interesting.

You can use swift on the server but what for? You have a gigantic ecosystems in languages X,Y,Z. Even Apple does not use Swift on the server (AFAIK) so why would you?

Swift lives only for macOS,iOS and besides those ecosystems does not have a solid and robust ecosystem to be used for anything else. It's a shame but it for sure needs BigTech for …

I think it's not about that but about dogfooding Swift on the server. Apple uses Go, Java etc for a lot of its server components and refused to invest in hiring people that would e…

ARC is a form of garbage collection. Swift does not fare better than Go usually.

Nano-texture is worth the upgrade if you are on a macbookpro whatever M and dont have it. For those of us with astigmatism it's really night and day experience.

There are no european alternatives. These are all european companies but they dont benefit the whole union. If a germany company gets big it will eat other european markets leaving…

Yes it does. Japan has a top down culture which does not see change as something useful.

I am eastern european and yes we do too but not to such extent.

Japan's decline is not a result of late stage capitalism but their inability to adapt and change cultural expectations and norms. It's decline stems from favoring bullshit work ove…

This is not true. It's just "dodgy security/spyware" startups are more open coming from Israel that they exist than the myriad of hidden companies that you never heard about becaus…

Of course. Where else?

Doubt this. Europeans are "euroracist", protectionist and unable to see the bigger picture. As a european I have exited the continent, sold all my properties and will never return …

Thailand is definitely not an affluent country.

Poorly worded on my part. Europeans typically get debit cards and not credit cards anyway

Exactly. I dont understand how many europeans dont see this at all.

>SEPA is instant and no fees outside the EU too, like Norway and UK. This is not the point. They need to be in SEPA for it to work. >It's great Thailand has this, but I still fail …

PromptPay use is different from SEPA. My comment was meant that QR payments are already possible with SEPA in EU it's just there exist different systems built on top of SEPA which …

Additionally you need to understand that to be a true VISA/MC alternative like JCB that card needs to work abroad with the POS terminals just needing a SW update. And it needs to r…

You misread this comment. Thai payment system works across the Asian countries (they are not in a UNION are they?). You can use that payment system if you have a bank in Singapore,…

Many countries in EU will have a similar QR code payment system like Thailand based on SEPA. Slovakia is rolling out its own in 2026. The problem is to standardize all these things…

European cards typically cannot do chargeback.