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Not even a year, about a month. Swift for Linux will arrive with the release of Swift 2.0, which will coincide with the release of Xcode 7, which will coincide
by gorena 11y ago
Not even a year, about a month. Swift for Linux will arrive with the release of Swift 2.0, which will coincide with the release of Xcode 7, which will coincide with the release of iOS 9 ... which will coincide with the announcement of the next iPhone, which should be around late September, as usual.
- Apocryphon 11y agoHm, do you think it'll only take a month for it to be ported to Windows?
- gorena 11y agoI'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 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.
- dman 11y agoCould you elaborate on Python being weird on Windows?
- AstralStorm 11y agoPython 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.