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Basically lack of polish. Nim's compiler just keeps evolving around unfinished and unpolished ideas never reaching a momentum.

It's a research project of its BDFL and he is alienating the most senior developers and contributors to Nim's ecosystems (ie Zedeus).

And yet I dont see any Flutter macos apps at all.

Nim could do better with more than just 1 or 2 brilliant developers

For small apps I use exclusively SwiftUI for anything more complicated I use a combo of Sciter and Swift (courtesy of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=c-smile).

There are still a lot of rough edges when it comes to look and feel on Apple platforms but it gives me the performance and speed while also being multiplatform.

Yeah but when you get old enough you get sacked and cant get employed anywhere and have to start frying chicken. So..

Yea there is no incentive. Why use Swift on the server or in k8s when you have gazillion other languages that are performant and have the ecosystems.

If Swift was paired with smh like QT/GTK (could have replaced Vala) it would've been interesting.

You can use swift on the server but what for? You have a gigantic ecosystems in languages X,Y,Z.

Even Apple does not use Swift on the server (AFAIK) so why would you?

Swift lives only for macOS,iOS and besides those ecosystems does not have a solid and robust ecosystem to be used for anything else.

It's a shame but it for sure needs BigTech for it to be used anywhere else.

I think it's not about that but about dogfooding Swift on the server. Apple uses Go, Java etc for a lot of its server components and refused to invest in hiring people that would extend the ecosystem for server Swift.

Thats the problem.

ARC is a form of garbage collection. Swift does not fare better than Go usually.

Nano-texture is worth the upgrade if you are on a macbookpro whatever M<cpu> and dont have it.

For those of us with astigmatism it's really night and day experience.

There are no european alternatives. These are all european companies but they dont benefit the whole union.

If a germany company gets big it will eat other european markets leaving nothing in those markets and then beg Merz for more immigrants to Germany instead of hiring other europeans.

Yes it does. Japan has a top down culture which does not see change as something useful.

I am eastern european and yes we do too but not to such extent.

Japan's decline is not a result of late stage capitalism but their inability to adapt and change cultural expectations and norms.

It's decline stems from favoring bullshit work over efficiency, change and adaptation.

This is not true. It's just "dodgy security/spyware" startups are more open coming from Israel that they exist than the myriad of hidden companies that you never heard about because they focus on tailored exploits.

Of course. Where else?

Doubt this. Europeans are "euroracist", protectionist and unable to see the bigger picture.

As a european I have exited the continent, sold all my properties and will never return to this place ever again.

Thailand is definitely not an affluent country.

Poorly worded on my part. Europeans typically get debit cards and not credit cards anyway

Exactly. I dont understand how many europeans dont see this at all.

>SEPA is instant and no fees outside the EU too, like Norway and UK. This is not the point. They need to be in SEPA for it to work.

>It's great Thailand has this, but I still fail to see how EU trying to copy Thailand (for a definition of copying) makes you lose faith in the EU. You would rather not have this no-fee payment system in the EU? How is this at all a negative thing?

The point is Thailand managed this due to economic, capitalist needs across different countries and cultures.

The EU is a union and did not even manage to do that as well as Thailand.

PromptPay use is different from SEPA. My comment was meant that QR payments are already possible with SEPA in EU it's just there exist different systems built on top of SEPA which are not cross compatible and available across the member states.

Additionally you need to understand that to be a true VISA/MC alternative like JCB that card needs to work abroad with the POS terminals just needing a SW update. And it needs to rolled out NOW.

You misread this comment. Thai payment system works across the Asian countries (they are not in a UNION are they?). You can use that payment system if you have a bank in Singapore,Korea,Indonesia etc.

Instant no fee payments.

Many countries in EU will have a similar QR code payment system like Thailand based on SEPA. Slovakia is rolling out its own in 2026.

The problem is to standardize all these things built on top of SEPA to work across the UNION.

European cards typically cannot do chargeback.

I have lost faith in European Union. All these things are just too little and too late.

Why the heck did Thailand manage to create instant payment system that works across Asian countries and European Union did not even finish similar system inside the EU?

Yes we have SEPA payments but these are useless in most payment-to-merchant type of payments across the EU.

We already should have had such system widely used and accepted across the WHOLE UNION.

I am glad we will have something but if I still need a VISA/MC card when I travel abroad ill just be constantly reminded of stupidity and inefficiency of the EU.

Swift and SwiftUI on macOS are the most complete UI framework that is native, fast, performant and works very well.

Basically no other platform comes even close in terms of ease of use and performance. The best would be to extend that kind of framework on Windows (and/or Linux) and make it work same / similar.