ESC meeting agenda: 2023-04-20 16:00 CEST

[Julien Nabet]

On 20/04/2023 17:18, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> More generally, what's the status concerning Swift on LO?
> Just a thought: Most of our Objective-C files are actually
> Objective-C++. That is, they also contain C++, and freely call various
> LibreOffice C++ functionality as needed. If they were "converted" to
> Swift, that would not be possible, but some complicated glue layer
> inbetween would need to be written. Which seems like a lot of pain for
> little gain. Or am I outdated, can you use C++ in Swift source files
> nowadays?

Hi Tor,

You're completely right, I knew that Swift was a recent language used by 
Apple but had missed the fact it wasn't ready yet to interface with C++, 
I made a comment here:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154849#c10

Julien