> In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types.

"One of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong"

I mean, it kind of fits, it works, but I did do a quintuple take trying process & make sure I was reading this first line correctly. Posting just to share. Read a little more to confirm, yeah, system calls & currency. Check & check.

One other idle thought, it would be interesting for something like the web platform to try to expose it's api's in a polyglot fashion. For some reason, this exposure, of Swift trying to open up more of it's platform to other platforms (that makes sense in context i swear) makes me think, how can the web platform keep expanding to offer more?

We're seeing really interesting neat early indicators with projects like Rust's web-sys, to wrap & expose the web platform in rust-webassembly. But what would it look like to try to expose & make useful JavaScript's new Temporal standard library, or Intl, or currenc... oh wait we don't have currency. ;)