A Cross-Platform String Library Written in Swift

Re:A Cross-Platform String Library Written in Swift by aphextron on Sunday March 05, 2017 @12:15PM (#13797019)

How on Earth is this 'cross-platform'?

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Re:A Cross-Platform String Library Written in Swift by coldtea on Sunday March 05, 2017 @01:07PM (#13797374)

Swift is cross-platform (and open source), and obviously this doesn't depend on parts of Swift (like the iOS/OS X only APIs) that are not available on other platforms, but only on the core (and portable) libs.

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Re:A Cross-Platform String Library Written in Swift by Someone on Sunday March 05, 2017 @12:58PM (#13797310)

Or a string library?

It is a library of functions that manipulate objects of the language built-in String type, not a library that implements a string type from scratch.

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Re:A Cross-Platform String Library Written in Swift by coldtea on Sunday March 05, 2017 @01:08PM (#13797385)

That's still a string library. string.h doesn't implement any "string type" from scratch either.

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Re:A Cross-Platform String Library Written in Swift by orbitur on Sunday March 05, 2017 @01:00PM (#13797322)

How is it not?

It doesn't rely on any Apple-specific APIs.

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