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One of the primary Ladybird devs just gave a lightning talk at CppCon about porting their HTML parser from C++ to Swift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCRx1jE6DnY

Current blockers to swift usage are found here: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933 Rising tide lifts all boats, by trying to use Swift seriously, they're finding and helping fix bugs in the compiler

Because the article is from 2022 and says that they will use a custom language called Jakt which didn't pan out, it seems. Yes, I am also eager for the Swift rewrite to get off the ground.

Mostly because the author switched focus to yet another language, and eventually decided to focus on something else instead of programming languages.

https://github.com/sophiajt/june