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    Phoronix: Apple's Programming Language Swift 2.2 Released With Linux Support

    As the first major release since Apple open-sourced the Swift programming language and began providing Linux support, Swift 2.2 is now available...

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  • #2
    Hahahahaha !
    It's a bit early for April's fool but still a very good one!
    Apple support for Linux... Hahahahaha !
    *That* will be well received and used by billions for sure!
    Last edited by DonMouloud; 21 March 2016, 11:17 PM.

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    • #3
      I wouldn't be surprised that a year form now you will be testing Swift on Linux along with all the other stuff in your test suite.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by DonMouloud View Post
        Hahahahaha !
        It's a bit early for April's fool but still a very good one!
        Apple support for Linux... Hahahahaha !
        *That* will be well received and used by billions for sure!
        It is being well received already. Come back in 2 to 3 years when the suite of tools firms up on Apple and Linux based systems. Swift has a lot going for it and any open minded LINUX developer will realize that.

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        • #5
          Well, the REPL and debug seem to work. Even though it's limited, this is a pleasant surprise.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by atomsymbol

            ... just a few more decades and all major operating systems will be able to "talk" to each other ...
            Well with C we can already do that

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            • #7
              Originally posted by DonMouloud View Post
              Hahahahaha !
              It's a bit early for April's fool but still a very good one!
              Apple support for Linux... Hahahahaha !
              *That* will be well received and used by billions for sure!
              How does it hurt Apple to have it's programming tools available in Linux? Seems like a win/win any way you look at it.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by hibbie View Post
                Well, the REPL and debug seem to work. Even though it's limited, this is a pleasant surprise.
                People need to realize that Swift and all the supporting features are under pretty heavy development even for Mac Native versions. In fact Swift as a language isn't really that stable right now and library interfaces are about to change dramatically. Swift on Linux will become interesting sometime after Swift 3 is released, that is why I suggested that it might be incorporated into the Phoronix test suite in a year or so time.

                Anybody in the Linux world laughing at Swift right now is misinformed as to what the language is. It is a far better solution to writing apps that C / C++, Python and a lot of other tech promoted in Linux land. Is it all there yet - nope but that doesn't mean there isn't real interesting technology here.

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                • #9
                  who cares?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by hibbie View Post
                    Well, the REPL and debug seem to work. Even though it's limited, this is a pleasant surprise.
                    How's it a surprise? Apple said they were going to open source it at WWDC last year (9+ months ago). They released the open source in December (4 months ago). At the time they said Linux was already provided. All that is new with this announcement is that Swift 2.2 (the new version of the language also released on March 21) is in a somewhat more polished form on Linux than the rather rough Swift 2.1 release of December.

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