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Right, Swift is an apple thing though. I generally like Apple's choices, but stay away from walled gardens, so can t go too deep into its merits.

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It was an apple thing. It's now an open-source, community driven language. It's very usable on Linux for server-side applications, and with Swift for Tensorflow it's going to become increasingly relevant in data science and machine learning.

edit: Swift is no more an "apple thing" than go is a "google thing"

Great to hear, sounds like they were both designed to solve similar issues with cpp

Huh, I was under this mistaken impression too. I know many, many, companies and projects using go as a foundation, but I don't think I've heard of any using swift. Any I should read up on?

I.e. Swift is an apple thing, go is a google thing... and c# is a microsoft thing, and java is an oracle thing. I am happy to have never been obliged to use any of them, and I expect my odds of needing to use any of them in the future are strictly decreasing.

Rust might not really be a mozilla thing anymore. But is it entirely a coincidence that Firefox had become a lot crashier since they started shoehorning rust code into it?

Firefox has largely been on this weird trend downwards since 4.x for me, at least. I don’t think it is necessarily the introduction of rust, but perhaps that’s exasperated the issue.

Exacerbated

That’s fair. I was drunk when I posted that statement, (Holiday party at coworking facility, woo open bars). Thanks :).

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