Re:Rust 1.5
by moonchrome on Thursday December 10, 2015 @07:23PM
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Does Swift run on Windows ? Emscripten ? Android ? Portability is also a big question that Rust has a lot better incentives to solve than Apple.
I got the impression that Linux support is more of a "here iOS/OSX develoeprs - we're aware you don't actually run OSX on your servers so you can share code between client and server now". I was not aware Apple wants to push Swift as a cross platform language.
If it was and their commitment looked credible (ie. they start porting tools like integrating debuggers and stuff on other platforms as well) I would definitely consider it.
I got the impression that Linux support is more of a "here iOS/OSX develoeprs - we're aware you don't actually run OSX on your servers so you can share code between client and server now". I was not aware Apple wants to push Swift as a cross platform language.
If it was and their commitment looked credible (ie. they start porting tools like integrating debuggers and stuff on other platforms as well) I would definitely consider it.