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Re:Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0 by Stranger43 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:54PM (#15404544)
It's probably going to end up similar to the equally hyped objectiveC where the core language was made portable but few of the tooling/API's used for real world OSX applications ended up supporting anything but OSX in any production ready capacity despite GNUSTEP actually shipping a ObjetiveC/OpenSTEP clone for Linux.

For the time being swift on Linux is a case of a few PaaS vendors trying to product differentiate by also offering swift frameworks because they can(due to modern container wrangling) more then due to any real market demand.

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Re:Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0 by amorde on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @06:19PM (#15405226)
One of the biggest causes of this for Objective-C was the lack of the Foundation framework (a higher-level interface to Core Foundation) - but this is being reimplemented in Swift. See https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation

Of course UIKit will still be missing, but thats sort of expected.

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Re:Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0 by favorited on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @09:35PM (#15406193)
Not if Microsoft keeps this up: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/tree/develop/Frameworks...

I'm not saying that's entirely reasonable, but it exists.

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