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Re:Swift 4.1 Released by saagarjha on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:47PM (#16712665)
Swift on Linux has access to a substantial portion of Foundation as well as any other C libraries, such as libc.
Re:Swift 4.1 Released by ttflee on Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:14PM (#16713133)
There are a lot mismatches.

For example, I reported a bug about CFRunLoopMode, where the original C-based CF used a comparison of pointer address to determine the equality of two run mode names. The original C version actually compared using the identity rather than equality as the commonModes was defined as a static CFStringRef (CONST_STRING_DECL(kCFRunLoopCommonModes, "kCFRunLoopCommonModes")). Of course this is an optimization for speed on Mac but this is, unfortunately, not supported in Swift and its replication of CF, because in Swift it has to be a public static String. As for today you cannot use commonModes in Linux.

Re:Swift 4.1 Released by saagarjha on Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:29PM (#16713208)
Unfortunately Apple still considers (Core)Foundation to be outside the auspices of Swift Evolution, which makes getting issues like these fixed much harder.
Re:Swift 4.1 Released by Redoubts on Thursday March 29, 2018 @11:18PM (#16713436)
Yeah, but a good chunk of it throws Not Implemented exceptions at runtime too.
Re:Swift 4.1 Released by saagarjha on Thursday March 29, 2018 @11:21PM (#16713440)
That’s why I qualified my statement with “substantial portion”.