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"Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" by Konrad Malawski (Strange Loop 2023)
Strange Loop Conference
Konrad Malawski's Strange Loop 2023 talk shows how the FoundationDB team adopted Swift incrementally in a C++ codebase. It covers Swift's C++ interoperability, which let them move single functions or entire types over one at a time.
HN commenters recommend it as the main resource on Swift as an incremental successor to C++ and on how the interoperability works in practice.
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