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sgt ◴[01 Feb 25 17:04 UTC] No.42899856[source]▶

Is Swift actually serious about embedded?

dlachausse ◴[01 Feb 25 17:13 UTC] No.42899953[source]▶

Yes, there was an entire WWDC ‘24 talk about it…

Swift is a great language, but it is unfortunately still held back by the stigma of being perceived as only usable on Apple platforms.

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o11c ◴[01 Feb 25 17:17 UTC] No.42899998[source]▶

And until packages are actually shipped for all mainstream distros, the stigma is completely accurate.

No, neither "just install a tarball" nor "just install this docker image" count.

1. pjmlp ◴[01 Feb 25 17:34 UTC] No.42900164{3}[source]▶

I remember when all Linux projects used to be install a source tarball and do the configure, make config, make, make install dance.

That hasn't prevented Linux to take over most UNIX workloads.

Apple is open sourcing Swift Build