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Re:Taylor – Swift on bare metal by blkhp19 on Monday September 05, 2016 @11:38PM (#12433512)
Without the swift standard library, what can be done? Doesn't the standard library include all of the basic types, like Array, Int, etc?
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Re:Taylor – Swift on bare metal by kr7 on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @12:33AM (#12433682)
Fixed-size integers and UnsafeMutablePointer are supported, so it is basically C with different syntax:

https://github.com/klange/taylor/blob/master/src/main.swift

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Re:Taylor – Swift on bare metal by pjmlp on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:45AM (#12434028)
Except it has a stronger type checking and safety.
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Re:Taylor – Swift on bare metal by posterboy on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:34AM (#12452366)
sounds good, what's the draw back like?
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