Re: A modern programming language for FreeBSD: Swift

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 01:20:00PM -0400, Kirill Orlov wrote:
> Sounds like its better to wait for Zig reaching its stable release rather than exploring options from a heavily greed-driven “organization”.
> 

The option there is to have swift in ports, vs. not having it at all.
And I very much love to see all impactful languages to be available
on FreeBSD.

Swift in the base system have exactly the same chances as zig, indeed.

> 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.
> >