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A somewhat contrived example which may require a quick look at the API docs but in the main you can focus on solving the problem, premature optimization and all that.

99% of people use the language standard library which has solved the problem.

You can bet your house that people will be trying to use Rust for general purpose reasons such as web apps etc.

How many people need to implement a lang runtime?, less than 0.0001% of all devs I would imagine. They can use C or C++ which has done the job for decades.

When you've worked with languages with a garbage collector, having to worry about memory management and all that jazz seems a step backwards just to save a few cycles. You want to be focusing on the domain problem not the machine. (This is directed at people who use Rust as a general purpose lang, im sure it's good for low level systems programming).

Does swift have a good package manager/library ecosystem? I think any new language should have this from the start.

Spotify will be holding a wake tonight, and if I were shareholder I would be offloading ASAP.

I should have said, I meant the fact that the iPad Air won't get it. It's almost the same device, fair enough older iPads won't receive it.

This could be a prelude to Apple offering their own Cloud services like AWZ or Azure, they need a standard backend Language that runs on traditional server OS's.

Regardless being able to implement backend and apps in one language is huge.

The only reason to do this is increase the sales of the latest iPad, there is no technical reason. Again apple treats it's customers like shit