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How is it going with Linux, Windows, BSD, etc. platforms? Anyone with experience using Swift on something other than an Apple product have a story?
by protomyth 10y ago
How is it going with Linux, Windows, BSD, etc. platforms? Anyone with experience using Swift on something other than an Apple product have a story?
- AlexeyBrin 10y agoAFAIK, Swift runs on Ubuntu, I think they've ported a large part of the Foundation framework to Swift. On Windows, some people reported about using Swift under the new Bash for Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
- pjmlp 10y agoIt runs fine on Ubuntu, but you might need umake to install it, or compile from source if still using 14.04 LTS. The GCC ABI 5.0 breakage doesn't play well with Swift source code, when using their own binaries.
- terhechte 10y agoRuns fine on the upcoming (almost-released) FreeBSD 11.0, Ubuntu & other Linuxes as well as Android. Not sure about Windows support, but people are working on that.
- Sk1pp 10y agoI'm pretty sure I saw a port for Arch as well.
- AsyncAwait 10y agoI wouldn't call it a "port", but basically the Ubuntu binaries are universal enough that you can unpack the .deb, symlink a few things to match Ubuntu naming and run the binaries on Arch.