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by willhbr 137 days ago
My experience is that it is very frustrating. Apple's documentation makes no mention of what works on Linux and its limitations, so you just have to guess or work it out with trial and error.

I tried to write a websocket client: https://willhbr.net/2023/08/23/the-five-stages-of-swift-on-l... Then tried again 2 years later: https://willhbr.net/2025/10/13/the-6-2nd-stage-of-swift-on-l...

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Sounds like a language not to waste my time on.

I should spend my time writing actual code and ship stuff, not debugging or finding holes in someone else's product.