Alternative programming languages

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That would prolly require that Swift itself be working in Haiku first, however.

Swift is already available, please see here:

Swift on and for Haiku

We already have the port built in this repository: GitHub - return/swift-haiku-build: Google Summer of Code repository for building Swift 4, 5 and higher for Haiku. and it is currently on Swift 5.9 so we are certainly not stuck on the older versions of Swift. As for Swift for Haiku, I would not expect a full migration of another language (Swift, Rust) being introduced to replace another (C/C++) in the kernel or in the whole OS. Even if that was to be considered, it would ultimately be up to the…

The C++ interop is still a bit immature as of now.