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Why is it interesting?
Presumably because MIT is even more permissive and it’s a change in Apple’s behavior.
Apache2's license I've heard described as mutually-assured-patent-destruction - if you use the code and make a patent claim, your rights to use the code go away.
So Apache2 offers little benefit here, and MIT may get it into more hands?
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Modern Swift borrows a lot from Rust! And it also has its own benefits, both ergonomic and also supporting eg generic in dynamic libraries
These days I mainly write Rust but I did write a semi complex iOS app and enjoyed Swift. I just didn't love how slow the type checker was and how it got lost. I recall having to break things into smaller bits to help the compiler, and there were some oddities about the language. The gap between the two languages is quite small, it just makes me wish Apple was also all-in on Rust
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Why is it interesting?
Presumably because MIT is even more permissive and it’s a change in Apple’s behavior.
No mention of AI? Hand written code?
But I personally reviewed every line that shipped and was absolutely insufferable about testing.
As much as I enjoyed Swift, one can only wonder what the world would look like if they had gone with Rust as their default language instead.
https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/ (written by a core Rust developer)
[1] apart from the basic/universal C one, which prevents exposing any useful Rust semantics over the interface
It looks like this hinter will be used only in rendering PDFs, because that's where they test the performance.
What's funny is from 2023 (I think), macOS just draws the UI unhinted. You have a 1080p display and you don't want to see the letters in the UI blurred to death? Tough luck, 1080p is incompatible with macOS, everybody needs "retina", and nobody cares that Windows and all Linux DEs look on 1080p just fine. It looks like this hinter will be used only in rendering PDFs, because that's where they test the performance.
What's funny is from 2023 (I think), macOS just draws the UI unhinted. You have a 1080p display and you don't want to see the letters in the UI blurred to death? Tough luck, 1080p is incompatible with macOS, everybody needs "retina", and nobody cares that Windows and all Linux DEs look on 1080p just fine. It looks like this hinter will be used only in rendering PDFs, because that's where they test the performance.
My last 1080p monitor was around 20 years ago. I have trouble comprehending people still use them regularly.
To me, it's more about what I'm used to. I have a perfectly fine several years-old monitor, so why should I throw it away?