Re: [Thought experiment] Bringing swift into an experimental branch?

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.