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Re:Swift Evolution acceptances: The big three by pjmlp on Friday March 04, 2016 @12:42AM (#11222243)
For that to happen, they need to have the compiler target more than just OS X, iOS and GNU/Linux.
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Re:Swift Evolution acceptances: The big three by clouddrover on Friday March 04, 2016 @07:31AM (#11223315)
There are some porting efforts underway in the early stages of development.

SwiftAndroid: https://github.com/SwiftAndroid

Swift for Cygwin: https://github.com/tinysun212/swift-cygwin-bin

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Re:Swift Evolution acceptances: The big three by pjmlp on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:05AM (#11223456)
I am curious to see if Microsoft is going to support it in their iOS bridge for Windows.

I see Swift more as a way to bring FP concepts to the masses via the desire to target iOS/AppStore.

Personally I am already sold to other ML influenced languages.

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Re:Swift Evolution acceptances: The big three by clouddrover on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:38AM (#11223595)
I hope so since the goal of the iOS bridge is to get as many iOS applications on Windows as possible. Maybe after (or in conjunction with) Swift 3.0.

Don't see it on their roadmap: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/wiki/Roadmap

But there's an open issue for it so that's promising: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/issues/25

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Re:Swift Evolution acceptances: The big three by clouddrover on Friday March 04, 2016 @07:40AM (#11223354)
And it sounds like FreeBSD support is on the way: https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-2016...
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