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Comment by keyle

Yeah and it leaves out a lot of details to be desired.

For example, no debian build of Swift. And when I ported the ubuntu version to .deb, I ran into odd bugs, like when you kill it, it lives on! Apparently a known issue.

Basic _big_ bugs that shows Apple's half assed commitment to open-source on any other platform than their own. I can't blame them, but Swift on linux, beware.

Swift is a wonderful language, sadly I'm not seeing the commitment from Apple to make it ubiquitous. Also to note, Apple has basically killed macOS as a server, rendering Swift more towards a system/UI target language; which is a shame, because again, it's a wonderful, safe, language.

parent keyle 2 years ago

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