...and so it's stuck, two decades on haha

https://github.com/girvo/girvent this is my silly one :)

Because that isn't true, people do use it outside of iOS app dev, and is becoming more true as time goes on to boot.

It's also a chicken-and-egg problem: no one will use Swift for non-iOS tasks if the tooling support isn't there. The more investment into it, the more it will be picked up for other tasks.

But it's been used outside of Apple-specific things since the early days in various niches.

For what it's worth, it's pretty straightforward to recreate it I found, at least it's base idea. Readline w/ nice output is a bit of a pain, but still, doable, and if you don't care about that part of it, then the overall agent loop that you'd build on top of? You could build it, I promise.

Unless governments nationalise the companies involved, but then there’s no way our governments of today give this power out to the masses either.

Apple fixed the issue it seems, but did kind-of-sort-of ignore it. The argument from the OP is that it requires physical access, you don't need to convince the user to do anything, the attacker can do it...

...which Apple pointed out (in the article you're commenting on) that if FileVault was enabled this wouldn't be possible, which is true.

And if you have physical access and no encryption, then it's kind of game over anyway. But still, kind of neat to find something like this and Apple fixed it regardless

Appreciate the gift link, I’ll give it a read!

Which is what makes it so great!

The funny thing is I actually agree with the AI slop: I think AI will kill seat pricing as we know it. I just can’t stand the constant boosterism and hyperbole of the last few years