Slowly but surely things are getting better in terms of cross-platform, with the latest in that realm being Apple itself committing to an open source rewrite of

Slowly but surely things are getting better in terms of cross-platform, with the latest in that realm being Apple itself committing to an open source rewrite of Foundation, which will fill in some holes and improve consistency on non-apple platforms. Swift on server has been usable for a while now too. I think the next big bottleneck on popularity will be tooling, and a solid VS Code extension is a small step forward in addressing that issue. As someone who’s been using Swift for years on iOS/macOS, I’d love to use it for desktop development on Windows and Linux. I think the language is well suited for that purpose, and it strikes a nice balance between safety, speed, features, ease of writing, and clean syntax which isn’t matched by too many other languages.