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0 pointspjmlp7y ago0 comments

Nah, Swift still does not support Windows on their official builds.

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simonh7y ago· 2 in thread

Fair point, but nobody’s writing backend software to support iOS apps on Windows servers so not something Apple cares about.

But then backends for iOS apps are part of Apples ecosystem, if peripherally, so I stand corrected.

pjmlpOP7y ago

Nor anyone is writing anything big in Swift on GNU/Linux, which even with builds available, is still pretty much WIP.

Vapor, Perfect, and Kitura are no match for the offerings in Java, .NET, Go, OCaml, Haskell, Erlang.

simonh7y ago

Of course, but then comparatively few people are writing iOS apps in Swift either. It's still a very young and still evolving language ecosystem, so building out the tooling around it is incredibly important in order to support it's growth.

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