IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise

Re:IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise by protomyth on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:11AM (#12581471)

How is it going with Linux, Windows, BSD, etc. platforms? Anyone with experience using Swift on something other than an Apple product have a story?

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Re:IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise by AlexeyBrin on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:16AM (#12581506)

AFAIK, Swift runs on Ubuntu, I think they've ported a large part of the Foundation framework to Swift.

On Windows, some people reported about using Swift under the new Bash for Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

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Re:IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise by terhechte on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:58AM (#12581821)

Runs fine on the upcoming (almost-released) FreeBSD 11.0, Ubuntu & other Linuxes as well as Android. Not sure about Windows support, but people are working on that.

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Re:IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise by pjmlp on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:18AM (#12581515)

It runs fine on Ubuntu, but you might need umake to install it, or compile from source if still using 14.04 LTS.

The GCC ABI 5.0 breakage doesn't play well with Swift source code, when using their own binaries.

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Re:IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise by Sk1pp on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:05AM (#12582410)

I'm pretty sure I saw a port for Arch as well.

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Re:IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise by AsyncAwait on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:38PM (#12584431)

I wouldn't call it a "port", but basically the Ubuntu binaries are universal enough that you can unpack the .deb, symlink a few things to match Ubuntu naming and run the binaries on Arch.

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