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I recently tried to use Swift for a UDP server that was meant to run on Linux. I quickly realized the Network Framework is for iOS/MacOS/iPadOS only. I ended u

I recently tried to use Swift for a UDP server that was meant to run on Linux. I quickly realized the Network Framework is for iOS/MacOS/iPadOS only. I ended up using Go and I'm happy with it. I really wanted to do full stack Swift though. Just so I could become better at the language.

favorited 7y ago
Honestly that's no different than realizing that AVFoundation or CoreGraphics is Apple-platform-only... Network.framework is an Objective-C framework (I'm honestly surprised I don't seen any C++ symbols in the binary) – it was never supposed to be a cross-platform framework. SwiftNIO is the official base of the OSS Swift cross-platform networking toolchain. It's the equivalent of Java's Jetty package.
- ynx 7y ago
  Netty, not Jetty.
  - favorited 7y ago
    Right, thanks!
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