What makes it unusable outside the apple ecosystem imho is that while the C interop is amazing on paper, it sucks hard in practice due to the abomination of pointer types they build in.
The "all pointers are evil" attitude doesn't help when you want to use a C library and noone will write rewrite all these libraries.
How do I call this function in swift?
SDL_AudioSpec* SDL_LoadWAV_RW(SDL_RWops * src, int freesrc, SDL_AudioSpec * spec, Uint8 * * audio_buf, Uint32 * audio_len);
I hate vibecoding. The cognitive toll is higher than you expect, the days feel fast, but the weeks move slowly.
With that said, these are the new compilers. Hopefully they make some software better[1] even with the massive increase in slop.
[0]https://gist.github.com/jumploops/b8e6cbbce7d24993cdd2fe2425...
For context, I just built a streaming markdown renderer in Swift because there wasn’t an existing open source package that met my needs, something that would have taken me weeks/months previously (I’m not a Swift dev).
Porting all the C libraries you need isn’t necessarily an overnight task, but it’s no longer an insurmountable mountain in terms of dev time.
“You’re looking at a multi-week refactor” aaaaand it’s done
It’s a nice tool, nothing more, nothing less. Anything else is marketing nonsense.