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I don't know about the niceties or otherwise of the language. But the fact that you need to install the huge bloated whale that is Xcode [about 5GB, last time I
by Normille 4y ago
I don't know about the niceties or otherwise of the language. But the fact that you need to install the huge bloated whale that is Xcode [about 5GB, last time I looked], just in order to try it, means you've got to really want to dip a toe in that particular water.
- _448 4y agoIt is just about 500MB[0] now with some Linux dependencies[1] [0] https://www.swift.org/download https://www.swift.org/download [1] https://www.swift.org/getting-started https://www.swift.org/getting-started
- Normille 4y agoHmmm... that's odd. So you can try it on Linux for the penalty of a 500MB download --which isn't too bad. But if you want to try it on OSX, you have to download Xcode? --which is pretty off-putting.
- moistly 4y agoI expect Xcode carries a big MacOS services/UI libraries overhead. The Linux version is the language plus minimal libraries.
- imran0 4y agoThose are rookie numbers, Visual Studio (+ MSVC) build tools are pushing past 10GB pretty easily.