Comment Re:Does anyone care? (Score 1) 26
It isn't covered by the mass media because it's not yet a big enough story, but there are grumblings in the dev community that using the various LLMs to assist in coding using Swift is orders of magnitude less effective than other languages/platforms. As a relatively new language with fewer compilation and application targets, there just isn't the sheer volume of code out there compared to, say, C++ or PHP. Additionally, Swift has gone through several terminology and technique redesigns, rendering chunks of the extant codebase deprecated. These factors lead to LLMs that don't "know" as much as about Swift and just can't be as useful.
Of course, this isn't strictly Apple's fault, but Apple does suffer from its developers being a step behind other platforms in a rapidly evolving development paradigm. They could make major headway by creating a Swift-centric LLM just for dev use by seeding it with what must be the biggest, otherwise publicly-inaccessible repository of Swift code: their own internal codebase.