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+1. For non-apple usage, I would want to see lot more GitHub repos with open source support for Swift. Right now even Kotlin/Rust and others beat Swift in that

by harikb 5y ago

+1. For non-apple usage, I would want to see lot more GitHub repos with open source support for Swift. Right now even Kotlin/Rust and others beat Swift in that respect. I really like the language, but I don’t know what is holding it back. I wish it solved concurrency without async/await keywords - that would have been a killer feature to compete with Go

saghm 5y ago
> I really like the language, but I don’t know what is holding it back From my limited outsider perspective, it seems like Apple's unwillingness to go out of their way to support Linux is what's holding it back. There seem to be a large number of people interested in using Swift on the server, but without first-party support, Swift on Linux will always be playing catch up, as new features will always land on MacOS first and often not be designed with any regard to how they'll work on Linux.