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It seem that microsoft care way more about developers at the moment than Apple does. So much good stuff, open source, Linux subsystem, vscode, copilot, documentation, plugins, etc. Things works and are cheap and plentiful.
Beside the sleek and high quality hardware, nothing is missing.
When the product of this hits the OS I predict massive instability. I don't think the Apple of 2022 has the level of systems programming talent that was behind the 1990s code in the core foundation. Today I feel like most of their attempts to move the OS forward beyond the shiny UI gimmicks (Tired of Exposé™? Try Stage Manager!™) are sloppy and only barely work (like "discoveryd" - google that if you don't remember).…
This is just plain cynicism and dramatization. “Massive instability” lol as if anyone with a desktop OS of any sort in 2023 has had anything close to that kind of experience. Let me know when my scroll bar UI is lagging like it’s 2003 in Cupertino. I’m sure Jaguar had zero errors and had all the code audited by Steve Jobs himself to make sure it had top quality. And for real what indicator is there that Apple has low…
When the product of this hits the OS I predict massive instability. I don't think the Apple of 2022 has the level of systems programming talent that was behind the 1990s code in the core foundation. Today I feel like most of their attempts to move the OS forward beyond the shiny UI gimmicks (Tired of Exposé™? Try Stage Manager!™) are sloppy and only barely work (like "discoveryd" - google that if you don't remember).…
Cocoa and Carbon and OS9 emulation... it was terribly unstable. But sure the current rock-solid-haven't-restarted-my-computer-in-6 months version is terribly unstable! Want proof? Explicitly turn on logging and watch the logs... log. xD
Just switched back to windows after a decade with macos. It seem that microsoft care way more about developers at the moment than Apple does. So much good stuff, open source, Linux subsystem, vscode, copilot, documentation, plugins, etc. Things works and are cheap and plentiful. Beside the sleek and high quality hardware, nothing is missing.
Everything you listed is on both platforms?
What are you actually comparing?
I am pretty certain that most of high level use cases for Rust could be replaced with Swift, with increased developer velocity, if Swift was actually cross platform. And that's coming from a Rust fan. It will be interesting to see how effective this rewrite is.
How would you compare Swift with Kotlin in terms of being a good stand-in for high-level Rust? I've not paid attention to Kotlin in a while, but it seems like there's more progress at supporting Kotlin across more platforms (Kotlin native, web?, etc). I'm curious if people feel that the language features and design are at about parity, or if one is significantly stronger/weaker.
Swift and Kotlin are in many ways similar, but I find Swift to be a bit nicer in almost every respect. Swift has more powerful generics, tuples, structs, powerful enums that are value types, `if let`/`guard let` statements that I'll take over `?.let {}` any day, etc. Kotlin is somewhat more expression oriented, which is nice; Swift is moving in that direction too, but slowly.
A native Kotlin (I have no idea how mature it is) might be a decent alternative to high-level Rust, but I'll take Swift if it's available. It's both more pleasant to work in and I assume more performant with better access to stack allocated value types.
When the product of this hits the OS I predict massive instability. I don't think the Apple of 2022 has the level of systems programming talent that was behind the 1990s code in the core foundation. Today I feel like most of their attempts to move the OS forward beyond the shiny UI gimmicks (Tired of Exposé™? Try Stage Manager!™) are sloppy and only barely work (like "discoveryd" - google that if you don't remember).…
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I would not describe Rust as being particularly ergonomic. While it is a suitable replacement for C++, that is not necessarily a high standard to meet.
Reading the super majority of Rust code is equally easy or easier than reading Python, or Typescript, or even Ruby. Writing Rust applications is also very ergonomic. The Rust web server frameworks are approaching the ergonomics of Typescript web server frameworks. The only Rudy lacking ergonomics is writing net new frameworks or missing framework pieces, or when std is not available. 95%+ of all new Rust code will fa…
The removal of C from Android and iOS is going to pay off massively. The current state of things where every government is sitting on an endless collection of exploits is not ideal.
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How great are the IDEs over there for Swift? A quick search indicates jetbrains just shut down theirs, apple.com/swift/ really screams "this is apple stuff" and swift.org/getting-started/ seems like they use VS2019 to build on windows, but nothing about use as IDE. There is a VS Code extension with 80k installs, though.
Xcode has its flaws but mostly it's pretty great to work in. With it available for the vast majority of current Swift programmers, it's a hard market to break into.