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Comment by saagarjha

6 years ago

> I want to try swift but the fact that there is no windows support is a deal killer for me.

There’s no official support, at least not yet. But it’s in the tree.

> And it perplexes me how over the years there have been no serious attempts to make it happen.

https://github.com/apple/swift/search?q=windows&unscoped_q=w...

If it's a real language, it's got to work on Windows. Having written a lot of portable code in C on both Unix and Windows, I can say that the reason I fell in love with Golang and Rust was because they had out of the box Windows support.