Andreas Kling announces Swift as Ladybird's future language for better safety and ergonomics. Full transition awaits Swift 6.

I would have preferred Rust, a language created by Mozilla instead of one with ties to Apple, but I’m not a dev so I can’t really judge. What are your thoughts?

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Rust would have been good in the long term but it’d take a long time to get to release.

    Swift mates sense for rapid deployment.

    Go would have been my choice concurrency would maybe help with lots of tabs

    • kewko
      2·
      3 months ago

      Tabs are typically spun into separate processes for sandboxing reasons anyway