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0 pointsApocryphon10y ago0 comments

Hm, do you think it'll only take a month for it to be ported to Windows?

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gorena10y ago· 2 in thread

I'm not an LLVM expert, but Swift is an LLVM frontend, so once it's open source, I think it should work for the various backends?

Right now the issue is library support - swiftc can already just spit out LLVM IR: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/2427

The stdlib would be included in the open source release.

Linux boxes would fulfill "non-Apple product" though. Unixy programming languages like Swift and Python have always been weird on Windows.

dman10y ago

Could you elaborate on Python being weird on Windows?

Python is a set of packages. On Windows, you're supposed to use a distribution, such as Anaconda.

Even then, building some of the fancier libraries (with native code) by hand is bit involved.

In fact, Anaconda works very well on Windows, as long as you don't require extreme latest versions of modules.

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