Comment on Servo vs Ladybird.

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Swift is great! The guy who made Rust worked on Swift for 3-ish years, so there’s a fair amount of overlap in interest between the two. Those were the two main contenders, and I guess OOP was the deciding factor.

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• Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Primeagen interviewed the creator, who basically said they chose swift because it was fun. Other languages they tried were less fun.

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  • isaaclyman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a professional dev (okay, okay, forgot where I was, aren’t we all) I approve of this reasoning

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still wonder why they chose Swift

  xcancel.com/awesomekling/…/1822236888188498031

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• taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The GitHub project seems to be mostly C++ and the Qt comment in the article would support that.

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  • jbaber@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    HN crowd told me they’re porting to swift. When I asked “why not Rust”, they said the C++ code was very OOP, so it was easier to port to swift.

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which probably means it uses deep inheritance hierarchies since that is the one thing that does not exist in Rust (and for a good reason).

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      • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can do deep hierarchies in Rust, the thing Rust doesn’t have is implementation inheritance. Or more precisely said implementation inheritance that relies on anything but the interface (traits can have default methods but they’re part of the trait definition, not any implementation).

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    • AnotherHelldiver@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not a dev but does Swift will restrict it to Apple platforms since it is Apple language?

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      • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        nope

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