Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (2019)
A lot of people who are invested in the Apple ecosystem have been trying to present Swift as a general competitor to Rust, but no matter how many bullet points you list, as far as I can tell, it hasn&#x27;t made any progress at all on that front, and I haven&#x27;t been convinced that it will change to become closer to that any time soon, either.<p>As far as I can tell, there&#x27;s really nothing wrong with Swift, and it probably has a lot to offer, but at some point someone&#x27;s going to need to point out the obvious: basically nobody outside of the Apple ecosystem is considering using Swift for anything. That doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s bad, but it&#x27;s not a competitor to Rust today, and it&#x27;s not trending in that direction.