← Back to context Comment by WD-42 17 hours ago But ladybird is ditching c++ for swift? 2 comments WD-42 Reply zarzavat 16 hours ago AFAIU they are not ditching C++, they are exploring writing some parts of the engine in Swift using the new C++ interop features in Swift. But a wholesale switch to Swift doesn't seem realistic. norman784 16 hours ago I remember Andreas saying something along those lines in some interview, but seeing their repo[0] doesn't looks likeC++ 64.6%HTML 22.4%JavaScript 11.0%CMake 0.7%Objective-C++ 0.5%Swift 0.3%Other 0.5%[0] https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
zarzavat 16 hours ago AFAIU they are not ditching C++, they are exploring writing some parts of the engine in Swift using the new C++ interop features in Swift. But a wholesale switch to Swift doesn't seem realistic.
norman784 16 hours ago I remember Andreas saying something along those lines in some interview, but seeing their repo[0] doesn't looks likeC++ 64.6%HTML 22.4%JavaScript 11.0%CMake 0.7%Objective-C++ 0.5%Swift 0.3%Other 0.5%[0] https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
AFAIU they are not ditching C++, they are exploring writing some parts of the engine in Swift using the new C++ interop features in Swift. But a wholesale switch to Swift doesn't seem realistic.
I remember Andreas saying something along those lines in some interview, but seeing their repo[0] doesn't looks like
C++ 64.6%
HTML 22.4%
JavaScript 11.0%
CMake 0.7%
Objective-C++ 0.5%
Swift 0.3%
Other 0.5%
[0] https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird