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How on Earth is this 'cross-platform'?

• Someone 10y ago
  Or a string library? It is a library of functions that manipulate objects of the language built-in String type, not a library that implements a string type from scratch.
  • coldtea 10y ago
    That's still a string library. string.h doesn't implement any "string type" from scratch either.
• orbitur 10y ago
  How is it not? It doesn't rely on any Apple-specific APIs.
• coldtea 10y ago
  Swift is cross-platform (and open source), and obviously this doesn't depend on parts of Swift (like the iOS/OS X only APIs) that are not available on other platforms, but only on the core (and portable) libs.