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by pjmlp 2720 days ago
Nah, Swift still does not support Windows on their official builds.
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simonh 2720 days ago
Fair point, but nobody’s writing backend software to support iOS apps on Windows servers so not something Apple cares about.

But then backends for iOS apps are part of Apples ecosystem, if peripherally, so I stand corrected.

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pjmlp 2720 days ago
Nor anyone is writing anything big in Swift on GNU/Linux, which even with builds available, is still pretty much WIP.

Vapor, Perfect, and Kitura are no match for the offerings in Java, .NET, Go, OCaml, Haskell, Erlang.

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simonh 2718 days ago
Of course, but then comparatively few people are writing iOS apps in Swift either. It's still a very young and still evolving language ecosystem, so building out the tooling around it is incredibly important in order to support it's growth.
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