Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:20:00 -0400 From: Kirill Orlov <slowdive@me.com> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>, jgopensource@proton.me, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A modern programming language for FreeBSD: Swift Message-ID: <D40071D4-46DC-4F67-B193-5588D32BF5D3@me.com> In-Reply-To: <aE_YwiEypfC2uQI_@kib.kiev.ua> References: <aE_YwiEypfC2uQI_@kib.kiev.ua>
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Sounds like its better to wait for Zig reaching its stable release rather than exploring options from a heavily greed-driven “organization”. Regards, -K. > On Jun 16, 2025, at 04:42, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 12:35:19AM +0100, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: >> Jordan Gordeev <jgopensource@proton.me> wrote: >> >>> The FreeBSD project can leap into the future by choosing a modern programming language to replace C, or continue living in the past, hoping that the rest of the world will do the same. >> >> Not a good start to a "sales" pitch. > > Perhaphs. > > But I expected somewhat more mature inception of the contribution. The > introduction for it is not great, but the work done could be. Having the > swift ported is huge amount of work, and I see it as useful. We need it > to have the system to be a good platform for all modern languages. > > IMO Jamie deserves the gratefulness and encouragement for the work done, > and not the naive sarcasm due to some missed wording. >
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