Comment by oscargrouch
5 hours ago
> Together with the author's distaste for Rust
As someone who understand the sentiment, I wouldn't call it distaste for Rust. It feels more as Rust not being the right tool for the job and to be honest I have the same feeling here. Rust is great for a bunch of problem domains, but it doesn't feel to be the best tool for this specific problem domain. It's always about the choices a programming language makes, it make it good for some use-cases and bad for others and there's nothing wrong with it. Also as a cautionary tale about panacea programming languages, Java once tried it with great success to be "the one" language to rule them all and we can see that even though it was a popular choice in many domains, slowly other fitting solutions to specific problem domains took over. Proving that there is no such a thing, unfortunately for us, but some languages gets closer than others (Rust being one of them).
Swift is a great language for app development, and many app developers already know and use it on iOS, macOS, and Android and want to use it for more platforms too.
Swift users aren’t choosing between Rust and Swift. They’re looking to use Swift more. I think that’s why this is valuable - it doesn’t need to be centered around why one wouldn’t use Rust.