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> The article mentioned adopting Swift for core algo would tie you into Apple eco, as Swift is not "cross-platform". Swift however is open source and cross plat
by oarsinsync 7y ago
> The article mentioned adopting Swift for core algo would tie you into Apple eco, as Swift is not "cross-platform". Swift however is open source and cross platform, just not well supported in other platform
They clearly state this themselves:
> while there are early attempts at running Swift on other platforms, how committed to that effort do you think will Apple be
They justify this scepticism with experience from trying to run Objective C code on other platforms:
> We’ve tried to port our core Liquid platform to Windows via WinObjC and GNUStep, but both attempts produced only partial success and a brittle platform that we’d be hesitant to build on for the future.