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Foundation (Swift's stdlib so to speak) is being rewritten as OSS [0] which will unify it between Linux and macOS. Right now, they use a different implementatio

Foundation (Swift's stdlib so to speak) is being rewritten as OSS [0] which will unify it between Linux and macOS. Right now, they use a different implementation on each platform [0]: https://www.swift.org/blog/future-of-foundation/ https://www.swift.org/blog/future-of-foundation/

brundolf 4y ago
And that's well and good, it's clear there are some engineers at Apple who would really like to see Swift become something more than just The Apple Language, but at the end of the day they aren't the ones getting to set the priorities. And my (very subjective/anecdotal/external) impression is that the business is just sort of humoring them - maybe Linux support helps a little with internal CI or something - without actually prioritizing multi-platform Swift. If a company with Apple's resources cared about multi-platform Swift, at the business level, we would've seen sterling support yesterday. For comparison, look at what Microsoft's done with .NET since they started to prioritize multi-platform support.