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?

  • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    pretty much give up on open-source contributions.

    You do realise that most major FOSS projects have an iOS app, right? The post I was looking at before this was for a new jellyfin app, small individual dev, has an iOS beta out. For a comparison, there are 9.1 million files on github in Swift, and 11.3 million in Rust.

    As well, as far as contributions, Swift was designed from the getgo to be incredibly approachable for novices. While Rust is notorious for being unapproachable. Like I get the anti-Apple circlejerk is strong, but Swift is licensed under Apache 2.0, it’s FOSS, so this argument is kind of ridiculous. Especially considering how much of Google’s FOSS just gets a free pass.

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      4 months ago

      Most FOSS projects weren’t allowed on the app store due to licencing, and although I think this has changed its also probably pushed off a lot of Foss devs.

      Number of files doesn’t really mean much more than number of lines though, especially between languages