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hn-accton Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

Plus you’re trading RN problems for gradle and integration problems on iOS.

hn-accton If AI writes your code, why use Python?

I personally don’t find it readable at all.

In my bubble I only see right winger influencers using it.

hn-accton I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

I tried clicking one of those just to see and it didn’t even go to the alleged product but instead a landing page with even more of those ads! Shocking, I know :)

hn-accton I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

It’s horrible on mobile. Sites like macobserver are bad. Two videos overlapping, popping in and out, shifting content.

hn-accton Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

swift --version is showing 6.2.4 for me

hn-accton Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

They said they made a "small swiftUI" app that leaks memory. From their shared link there is no SwiftUI at all. No clue....

hn-accton Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

The funny thing about the low effort parent comments is the truth - wikipedia lists that there are more release builds of swift of linux than for macOS. Granted they were bug fixes but still.

hn-accton Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/propo...

All of these changes improve the ergonomics of async/await. Fewer hops and a better alignment of when one would expect a hop to occur.

https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/propo...

async defer is nice too but it's not in the 6.2 public release AFAICT.

hn-accton Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

First, op should mention which ones but they won't.

hn-accton Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

Just forget everything you've learned about it previously, use 6.2+, non isolated by default and every upcoming feature turned on. And your intuition will be spot on.

hn-accton Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-windows-workgroup/ https://www.swift.org/blog/exploring-the-swift-sdk-for-andro... ?

hn-accton Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

I'm also wondering how big their programs are that the compile times are an issue. I'm seeing fantastic build times with Xcode 16 and Xcode 26.2 with swift 6.2 it's even better. SPM is also better with the newer version. Most issues can be solved or exposed by closing the window and reopening or going to the package with issues and pressing cmd+s.

hn-accton Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

Agreed. People use any thread mentioning swift to dunk on Apple for X number of reasons with vague details and regurgitated dogma. I get Xcode has quirks I use it everyday believe me I know but it's not that bad that it's unusable.

hn-accton Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Other IDEs do this too btw

hn-accton Skip is now free and open source

Small views and the preview canvas are your friend

hn-accton Approachable Swift Concurrency

Do people actually believe that there are too many keywords? I’ve never met a dev irl that says this but I see it regurgitated on every post about Swift. Most of the new keywords are for library writers and not iOS devs.

Preventing deadlock wasn’t a goal of concurrency. Like all options - there are trade offs. You can still used gcd.

hn-accton The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains

Actually though. We had one device that was over 10 years older without any MDM etc. and it outperformed a new laptop building the same product because of the corporate anti virus crap.

hn-accton Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files

Why does this site work better on mobile than the real google suite. Funny stuff

hn-accton Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign

Sure but PMs are billed lower than devs from my experience. You might have 1-3 on this project.

hn-accton Roadmap for improving the type checker

I wasn’t aware objc was considered “fast”.

hn-accton Roadmap for improving the type checker

Hyperbole

hn-accton Roadmap for improving the type checker

Same here. I rarely run into this problem. I write mostly SwiftUI too. I will admit there are some built in SwiftUI views that are problematic: tables, outline groups.

Most of the time it’s a syntax error or typo.

hn-accton The Swift SDK for Android

The developer experience is worse for an iOS developer.

hn-accton Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)

How do you quantify or decide an acceptable failure rate for llm output?

hn-accton Blurry rendering of games on Mac

If amateurs can use game porting and achieve decent results then I think the actual devs can achieve excellent results.

My guess is that Mac users simply don’t buy games for their macs

hn-accton We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

Thanos snap it if you’re using ios

hn-accton What’s new in Swift 6.2

It’s opt in. Very explicitly opted in. Did you read the post? Because it improves actors and makes it easier for app devs and general programming use cases. Honestly I don’t get the “sky is falling” mentality towards swift because a feature they won’t use or are affected by is added.

“Due to these insane changes” Which changes?