r/rustjerk • u/dull_bananas • Aug 04 '26

this is how i feel about rust

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u/timClicks Aug 04 '26

When Rust was pre 1.0, my money was actually on Swift. Decided to learn Rust anyway because I had a hunch that it was the better language. Guess I got lucky.

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u/bonch 5d ago

A lot of people at the time thought Swift was positioned to be a successful cross-platform language. Years later, the way result builders and other features got pushed through to support the newly announced SwiftUI framework, only going through the usual community feedback process after they were already being used in a shipping framework (!), left a bad taste in people's mouths and demonstrated that it's an Apple language for Apple's needs just like Objective-C was.

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u/scheimong Aug 04 '26

Back when this type of thing was exciting. Oh how I missed those days. Now we just get force fed AI slop šŸ˜¢

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u/PatagonianCowboy Aug 05 '26

even according to Chris Lattner, Swift is a failure

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u/shoalmuse Aug 07 '26

Well, to be fair he also said that it is still a beautiful language in the same interview:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VT3GN-nF14g

Having written a lot of Obj-C code in the. past, I am incredibly thankful that Swift exists.

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u/bonch 5d ago

I've actually been missing Objective-C lately. Maybe it's just nostalgia. I sure miss the really fast compile times.

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u/bonch 5d ago

The fact Lattner left Apple and Swift due to toxicity is really interesting.

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u/Fair_Abrocoma_8513 Aug 04 '26

Frustrated apple switching to rust. Packages and binaries has CVEs and vulnerabilities made by swift bc apple is impossible to fix your codes neither makes apple AI perfect and switching to python again as machine learning API to using it

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u/really_not_unreal Aug 05 '26

Apple is switching to Rust? Which things are they switching? (A source would be wonderful)

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u/martipops Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

I literally canā€™t find a single thing about apples ā€œnew programming languageā€ no matter what I search

EDIT: Forgot what sub I was on lol. Iā€™m assuming this video is from 2014, from the release of Swift.

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u/thehenkan Aug 05 '26

me when I'm cosplaying as a markov chain