Ladybird Browser Team Selects Swift as Preferred Language : opensource

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I do wonder: why not rust? It would have been amazing. A fast language on par with C++ that also is memory safe. But Swift? You gotta be kidding me...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, programming language. My brain was stuck trying to figure out if Swift is related to Swiss.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago

Swift is a fantastic language and with c++ interop out of the box it’s the obvious choice.

[+] [email protected] -27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

I would have preferred Rust, a language created by Mozilla instead of one with ties to Apple, but I'm not dev so I can't really judge. What are your thoughts?

I don't know anything about Swift, but people like to ignore the fact, that Rust is not entirely free, as it fails to exercise freedom 3.
tl;dr: Rust Foundation don't want you to apply modifications to their language without "explicit approval".
And you are also limited to share modified versions of their software.

(If someone can imply, that Python and Perl have similiar restriction — they are not the same, because both of their trademarks protect usage of software against fraud, but you can freely patch and modify it.)

For me personally, seeing LadyBird not choosing Rust as their main language is very promising. Rust software is everywhere now and this is concerning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

There's a reason why software is being made with Rust now. It has the speed of C++ (sometimes faster), has a nice syntax, is memory safe by default, has the best compiler error messages and also the book is very good. I learnt entirely by the book and it's very good at explaining things.

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