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I do not know a ton about it. Thanks for the pointers. I kept up with Swift more in the old days, but it doesn't seem to have gained a ton of relevance outside

I do not know a ton about it. Thanks for the pointers. I kept up with Swift more in the old days, but it doesn't seem to have gained a ton of relevance outside of Apple platforms, which I don't develop for. Doesn't mean that I think that it's bad, just that that's why I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet.

mannuch 3y ago
For sure! Yeah I think a lot of people don’t realize that there’s actually a ton of really interesting work going on in Swift that is very relevant to the current conversation around languages these days (i.e. memory safety, data race safety, performance, development experience, etc.) The cross-platform story is getting quite good with Swift, but I think a lot of people just aren’t aware of it. Linux support is good and Windows is getting better and better. For example, The Browser Company is betting big on using Swift for its Windows app and talks about why they are doing it https://open.substack.com/pub/speakinginswift/p/interoperability-swifts-super-power?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/speakinginswift/p/interoperabi...