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Swift has its own standard library, Foundation for things that fall outside the purview of the native stdlib (e.g. JSON parsing and regular expressions), and Ap
by austinz 12y ago
Swift has its own standard library, Foundation for things that fall outside the purview of the native stdlib (e.g. JSON parsing and regular expressions), and ApplicationKit/UIKit for GUI stuff. A multiplatform Swift + stdlib would already be quite useful for non-GUI applications on other platforms.
- pjmlp 12y agoThere are already lots of ML based languages to choose from with more use in the market than Swift. A Swift compiler without the Mac library will be a very poor choice in regards to any existing ML language.
- austinz 12y agoPotential users can decide whether or not it's a poor choice themselves. I suspect the language would be more popular than a strict reading of its merits might suggest.