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If enterprise IT is excluded I wonder what "general purpose" even means.

• smt88 7y ago
  Enterprise IT is a user/customer category, not a purpose. And I didn't mean it to include apps. I meant that Swift is not suitable for IT depts that must use Windows servers, which is not that common anymore.
  • fauigerzigerk 7y ago
    There are some very common purposes that are closely associated with enterprise IT. Writing line of business applications for Windows environments (server and/or desktop) is one of them. But there is of course a sense in which Swift is a general purpose language as opposed to something like SQL if that's what you mean. Unfortunately, right now Swift is not (yet) a pragmatic choice for anything other than iOS/macOS apps.
    • smt88 7y ago
      > Writing line of business applications for Windows environments (server and/or desktop) is one of them. I disagree that this is common. Most people are on web + browser + Office these days.
      • fauigerzigerk 7y ago
        Web includes a very large number of Windows Server environments, either on premises or in the cloud. You really underestimate how dominant Windows is in many enterprises.
      • pjmlp 7y ago
        So where are the Swift bindings for Oracle, Informix, SQL Server, DB2?