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dagmx on Oct 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: An aborted experiment with server Swift

I write a lot of Swift and Rust, and personally I find them to be very similar languages, and most of my code ends up identical.

They have a lot of shared ideas and even shared developers.

Swift is effectively ref counted rust imho

danpalmer on Oct 26, 2023 [–]

I think this does a disservice to Rust, but I do agree with the thrust of your point. Rust appeals to my desire for perfect engineering, Swift appeals to that side enough, but with a healthy dose of pragmatic engineering. On a perfect to pragmatic scale, Swift is in a better place than Rust in my opinion.

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