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Comment by _bxg1

6 years ago

Didn't realize the Linux version was offered through the official channels. That's something.

Still, to truly compete it would need to have Windows support too. And ideally real buy-in from at least one other major tech company.

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skohan  6 years ago

As the other poster has mentioned, IBM has put a lot of effort into server-side swift. Also Google is investing in Swift for Tensorflow, which means there is a team at Google who's job it is to work on the Swift compiler every day.

edit:

If you want you can use Swift on Google Colab right now:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/swift/bl...

dwaite  6 years ago

https://dev.azure.com/compnerd/windows-swift

"Support" is the kicker - I consider C# and C++ to have Windows Support because the platform vendor publishes and provides support for their own developer tools.

Do you mean that, or maybe something closer to the level of "Support" where interested parties submit improvements, and platforms are included in the CI/CD process?

  • skohan  6 years ago

    > Windows Support because the platform vendor publishes and provides support for their own developer tools.

    It's not from Microsoft directly, but it's worth noting that LSP support for Swift is under active development. VSCode is probably currently the second-best IDE for Swift development.