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My understanding is as soon as you target on a non-Apple device, you lose a large chunk of the API (foundation). This includes things like file system interacti

My understanding is as soon as you target on a non-Apple device, you lose a large chunk of the API (foundation). This includes things like file system interaction, date handling, sorting/filtering, networking and text processing. My understanding is there is some effort to provide a version that works outside of Apple OSes, but it’s incomplete https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/master/Docs/Status.md https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast.... If you are looking for static linking stdlib it looks like there’s still an open bug on Linux. https://bugs.swift.org/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/SR-648 https://bugs.swift.org/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/SR-648

geoffpado 6y ago
FWIW, as an iOS-centric programmer who’s also implemented a bunch of scripts and several moderate API projects in Swift/Linux, I haven’t found the OSS Foundation to be particularly lacking. The only quirk I can remember having to work around is the fact that for some reason, all the networking code (i.e., URLSession) is pulled out into a separate module, FoundationNetworking. FWIW, looking through that list you linked to, it seems most things are complete apart from relative edge cases (NSGeometry), fairly Apple-specific (Bundle), or replaced by something newer (NSCoder). The big one that jumps out to me as being a larger issue is the URL authentication stuff… so I guess steer clear if you need to handle basic auth/Kerberos/etc. The XML parsing being mostly incomplete is a bummer, too. :( Ultimately, though, I’ve found Swift on Linux to have everything I need for what I’ve been building with it. Obviously, YMMV, but (and not just for you, anyone else reading as well), I wouldn’t be scared off just because Foundation isn’t 100% complete. ### Edit: that being said, this is also just a defense/rebuttal to the comment I’m replying to. Swift isn’t the answer to all projects; I still reach for Clojure as my first choice for large API projects, mostly due to my own preferences.
- charrondev 6y ago
  It’s been a while since I had checked, so I’m glad to see it’s filled out a lot more. It seems like the language evolution has slowed down a bit too. The last time I had given it was a little after the swift 3 release which had quite a lot of breaking changes. I let my previous experience here prevent me looking deep enough into it. I’ll have to give it another shot.

geoffpado 6y ago

FWIW, as an iOS-centric programmer who’s also implemented a bunch of scripts and several moderate API projects in Swift/Linux, I haven’t found the OSS Foundation to be particularly lacking. The only quirk I can remember having to work around is the fact that for some reason, all the networking code (i.e., URLSession) is pulled out into a separate module, FoundationNetworking. FWIW, looking through that list you linked to, it seems most things are complete apart from relative edge cases (NSGeometry), fairly Apple-specific (Bundle), or replaced by something newer (NSCoder). The big one that jumps out to me as being a larger issue is the URL authentication stuff… so I guess steer clear if you need to handle basic auth/Kerberos/etc. The XML parsing being mostly incomplete is a bummer, too. :( Ultimately, though, I’ve found Swift on Linux to have everything I need for what I’ve been building with it. Obviously, YMMV, but (and not just for you, anyone else reading as well), I wouldn’t be scared off just because Foundation isn’t 100% complete. ### Edit: that being said, this is also just a defense/rebuttal to the comment I’m replying to. Swift isn’t the answer to all projects; I still reach for Clojure as my first choice for large API projects, mostly due to my own preferences.

charrondev 6y ago
It’s been a while since I had checked, so I’m glad to see it’s filled out a lot more. It seems like the language evolution has slowed down a bit too. The last time I had given it was a little after the swift 3 release which had quite a lot of breaking changes. I let my previous experience here prevent me looking deep enough into it. I’ll have to give it another shot.