Ladybird Browser Team Selects Swift as Preferred Language

warmaster@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 132 points – Ladybird Browser Team Selects Swift as Preferred Language
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I would have preferred Rust, a language created by Mozilla instead of one with ties to Apple, but I'm not a dev so I can't really judge. What are your thoughts?

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Rust was made by Mozilla? TIL

Yep. It was developed to improve parallelization and security of Firefox. Many core parts of Firefox have been replaced with Rust implementations.

I see now. Rust is the color of fox, and foxes eat crabs. It all makes sense now.

I thought it was weird such an old piece of software had so much Rust in it. I noticed all the Rust-related things while Firefox Librewolf compiles but never looked into it further.