Comment by gfxgirl
5 years ago
Swift is far more like C# than Rust in terms of memory management. Sure it uses ARC but arguably that makes it not suitable for kernel level stuff.
5 years ago
Swift is far more like C# than Rust in terms of memory management. Sure it uses ARC but arguably that makes it not suitable for kernel level stuff.
xnu is refcounted, its also c++ which isn't swift friendly.
XNU also has ABI stability requirements which rules out rust.