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Every time I read about swift it seems like a nice language, but it's a shame its ecosystem is so limited. It's great to see it supporting more platforms now. I
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 2y ago
Every time I read about swift it seems like a nice language, but it's a shame its ecosystem is so limited. It's great to see it supporting more platforms now. Is the ecosystem in the package manager/index also heading the same direction?
- tcmart14 2y agoFor the question, I think it depends on what you mean. I've been able to use SwiftPM on linux without a whole lot of issue. So SwiftPM itself doesn't seem to be the blocker here. At least I've not had issue in my experimentation. What is maybe more of the blocker is the number of libraries that are useful and are compiled and tested on Linux. Which for that, the solution is just people write libraries/upstream Linux support to existing libraries.
- MBCook 2y agoMaking more and more of foundation available (a big part of 6) should also help a lot. Fewer external dependencies needed, and fewer per-platform libraries if you support multiple platforms.
- tcmart14 2y agoYes it should. I am excited for it, the big of swift on Linux that I've done, I have enjoyed and look forward to it getting better and better.
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