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Ladybird: Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

The article documents Ladybird Browser's decision to stop pursuing Swift adoption due to blockers in Swift 6.0, including LLVM/Clang interoperability issues, C++ bridging challenges, and libstdc++ compatibility questions. It provides a detailed look at upstream Swift issues, workarounds, and open questions, concluding with the project closing the Swift adoption effort as a case study in language choice risk for complex cross-language software.

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