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In times of AI the language doesn't matter, not even if the dev can read it or not, what matters is the result, speed, optimization, interoperability, UI/UX adaptability to user expectations

I've built apps recently in swift, rust, zig, node with HTML UI (not electron) for MacOS and I care less about the code as the AI agent does a perfect job in all of them, even if I don't see much difference in the results (except HTML which is pretty but weird)

Asked the same question to AI and she told me Swift is the best choice for MacOS apps just because it doesn't need C bridges between their kits/libraries and that in itself is an optimization gain

Of course Swift in Linux is not the best option, probably the last, in Microsoft probably .NET I don't know, haven't used MS products in twenty years

The point is, language selection is best decided on platform optimization, not on personal preference. I guess AI killed language wars?