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Swift 3

• swang 10y ago
  Curious are people using Swift only for iOS apps or are people using it also as a server language?
  • sinatra 10y ago
    As long as Swift continues to have strong reliance on Apple, Swift on server-side will run the risk of being a second-class citizen. It's unlikely to have a well-established ecosystem of external developers either because Swift currently attracts primarily iOS developers. So, till Apple makes some moves to show that it considers server-side a first-class citizen, or you see a very obvious external developer ecosystem building for server-side Swift, I'd recommend not using it there.
    • jjnoakes 10y ago
      Isn't swift-in-the-cloud backed by IBM?
• augb 10y ago
  I don't see anything on GitHub [1] yet, but it is on apple.com. An announcement coming soon? [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/releases https://github.com/apple/swift/releases Edit: added GitHub link.
  • jbergstroem 10y ago
    It's not uncommon for Apple to have private branches that are merged back to their OSS projects after features/changes/devices have been announced -- it's been occurring a few times in LLVM and Clang-land. Taking a quick glance over the git history seems to point to commits referencing 3.0 though?
    • augb 10y ago
      Just to clarify ... I meant I hadn't seen a commit tagged as a 3.0 release yet.
• middleq 10y ago
  Details: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution#implemented-proposals-for-swift-3 https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution#implemented-proposa...
• augb 10y ago
  It looks like the 3.0 preview [1] was committed ~11 minutes ago. [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/releases/tag/swift-3.0-PREVIEW-1 https://github.com/apple/swift/releases/tag/swift-3.0-PREVIE...
  • augb 10y ago
    Here is the blog entry on the developer preview: [1]. [1] https://swift.org/blog/swift-3-0-preview-1-released/ https://swift.org/blog/swift-3-0-preview-1-released/