Swift is well-suited for creating user interfaces thanks to the clean syntax, static typing, and special features making code easier to write.
Result builders, combined with Swift’s closure expression syntax, can significantly enhance code readability.
I mean it’s a student project. It literally could be “I think Swift is cool and I like Linux.”
And you know… They’re not wrong, Swift is a cool language, it’s just not got much adoption outside of the Apple ecosystem for whatever reason. It’s long been workable on Linux … I’m happy to see some novel work in this space.
Swift is also interesting because while it’s general purpose, UI design was always in mind for Swift. That’s different from C or C++ which are the basis of GTK and Qt the predominant UI frameworks used for the Linux desktop currently (Rust might enter that conversation more seriously with Iced and System76’s COSMIC).
You’re also right that there are options … but there are also options in the Windows world. Everybody isn’t using what Microsoft uses and even Microsoft doesn’t use the same UI toolkit everywhere.
I mean it’s a student project. It literally could be “I think Swift is cool and I like Linux.”
And you know… They’re not wrong, Swift is a cool language, it’s just not got much adoption outside of the Apple ecosystem for whatever reason. It’s long been workable on Linux … I’m happy to see some novel work in this space.
Swift is also interesting because while it’s general purpose, UI design was always in mind for Swift. That’s different from C or C++ which are the basis of GTK and Qt the predominant UI frameworks used for the Linux desktop currently (Rust might enter that conversation more seriously with Iced and System76’s COSMIC).
You’re also right that there are options … but there are also options in the Windows world. Everybody isn’t using what Microsoft uses and even Microsoft doesn’t use the same UI toolkit everywhere.