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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:48:01 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • Jonathan Wight
   • Ian Baird

   @schwa @ij_baird
   I also strongly suspect it’s the poor quality of the whole Swift dev experience on non-Apple platforms.

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     Jonathan Wight (schwa@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:48:02 JST Jonathan Wight

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     • Ian Baird

     @ij_baird I think it's the yearly releases plus difficulty of getting stuff accepted by the swift org (and then being stuck on a nightly toolchain until it lands in an xcode train).

     Everything in rust is community driven.

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     Ian Baird (ij_baird@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:48:05 JST Ian Baird

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     • Jonathan Wight

     @schwa not sure where swift went wrong - maybe Apple isn’t good at building and keeping the interest of a community?

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     Jonathan Wight (schwa@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:48:06 JST Jonathan Wight

     The rust open source community is doing incredibly interesting things - especially in the computer graphics field (also embedded/real-time fields). Every open source project I’ve noticed and been intrigued/impressed by recently seems to be written in rust.

     The swift OSS community on the other hand seems anaemic in comparison. Focused purely on yet more mobile development or swift on the server (which has little appeal to me).