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A full rewrite of what? iOS? I hope you’re kidding

Apple can rewrite the media and PDF libraries in no time in Swift/Rust, they have tons of money to waste.

In no time? What are you talking about? It’d take months even with llms for it to be fully polished and tested if they started now.

If anybody has the resources to do it, tho, they do

They have the means, they have the motivation

Lately they have fewer and fewer excuses not to

That is magic thinking and even religious

The reality is Apple has been working on rewriting bits and pieces in Swift.

That is essentially "in no time" on Apple's release cadence.