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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Counterpoint, I believe the Swift syntax strikes a much better balance than Rust in terms of ergonomics and argument labels are awesome for designing fluent APIs. There are things that Rust does better, aside from having a bigger ecosystem, namely the whole borrowing/ownership system, though they're catching up (noncopyable types and references are coming soon).

The concerns about ARC are generally a bit overstated, ARC only comes into play with classes, which modern Swift greatly deemphasizes in favor of structs, enums and protocols. Sure, sometimes you need them, especially when interoperating with Objective-C, but Rust has its escape hatches for reference counting too (Rc/RefCell, Arc/Mutex), those are just (intentionally) a bit more verbose.

In short, Swift encourages a very similar, value-oriented programming style as Rust with a modern type system (generics, associated types etc.), while offering lots of nice syntactic sugar (property wrappers, result builders etc.)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

CMake can also emit its own errors during the configure step though, particularly if you have complicated build logic and/or lots of external packages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's mostly still true, with the small caveat that the default prefix on arm64 macOS is /opt/homebrew rather than /usr/local, so you might have to add it explicitly to your PATH

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Projects for Apple platforms usually also use .h, where it could mean anything from C/C++ to Objective-C/C++.

In practice, Clang handles mixed C/C++/Obj-C codebases pretty well and determining the language for a header never really felt like an issue since the API would usually already imply it (declaring a C++ class and/or Obj-C class would require the corresponding language to consume it).

If a C++ header is intended to be consumed from C, adding the usual #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" {... should alleviate the name mangling issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To be fair, the gaming chair also holds you against lateral GeForce

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

or Swift, Rust has semicolons while Swift doesn't

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

It's open source though and they plan on adding Linux/Windows support in the future

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That article tells you how to set up syntax highlighting and run the command-line compiler by hand, not really comparable to IntelliJ... The article feels like a generic SEO post

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Just wanted to point that rust-analyzer is the fantastic language server that powers the language support, and it runs in a lot of editors (VS Code, Emacs, Neovim, ...)