Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:37:43 +0300 From: Rozhuk Ivan <rozhuk.im@gmail.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Thought experiment] Bringing swift into an experimental branch? Message-ID: <20250617013743.3b5108f0@rimwks.local> In-Reply-To: <7344B44E-0AED-44CA-903D-B8DFC2D56311@gmail.com> References: <7344B44E-0AED-44CA-903D-B8DFC2D56311@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:04:37 -0700 Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> wrote: > All that said, I think a more modern language than C++ being readily > available has a useful way of shifting development and generating > some excitement, and a modern language that is also strongly > supported by your existing clang / LLVM compiler toolchain represents > an increment along the same evolutionary path. It’s also a language > that needs a number of components to be tightly in sync (libdispatch, > clang, llvm, various compilation tools and libraries, etc) before any > 3rd party developer can even compile it for FreeBSD, so saying “it’s > a ports collection problem” may ultimately work, but not without > considerable pain, as evidenced by the fact that ports/lang/swift > does not exist. > No modern language required, even C++ is to complex to learn it. C just works, like it work 30-40 years ago. All can be done on C. All modern today become unmodern in 5-10 years and it will require many man power to support it.help
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