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I find it interesting in perspective of the Swift language their are now pushing.

Theoretically would’nt programms written in pure Swift today be able to compile for any new hardware plateform, thus avoiding the kind of issues that 32/64 switch faced?

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Instead you get issues with updating from Swift 1.x to 7.x.

The educational story of this sort is the transition between python 2 and 3... not ever done for some packages.

So much this. When you're a small team, this sort of thing can basically mean having a product vs not.

Swift is a new language, so it’s sure to have source breakage in the first few versions. The compiler is now backwards compatible, though.

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