Ask HN: Installing Swift on ubuntu for newbie

Posted by mouselover on Friday January 30, 2015 @10:22PM
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Hi, so I don't have money for a mac but I installed ubuntu 14.04 and was wandering if there is a tutorial out there on how to install it on this system. Thanks

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Re:Ask HN: Installing Swift on ubuntu for newbie by brudgers on Saturday January 31, 2015 @12:17AM (#8975971)

Generally speaking Swift is not available anywhere except Apple's proprietary platforms. [1]

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/242952/can-sw...

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Re:Ask HN: Installing Swift on ubuntu for newbie by SomeoneWeird on Friday January 30, 2015 @10:39PM (#8975767)

You can't.

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Re:Ask HN: Installing Swift on ubuntu for newbie by Jeremy1026 on Friday January 30, 2015 @10:55PM (#8975814)

To be frank. Even if it were possible I think it'd be above your head. You don't install a programming language.

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Re:Ask HN: Installing Swift on ubuntu for newbie by coldtea on Friday January 30, 2015 @11:57PM (#8975941)

Well, actually you do. Only work to work with one, is to install it (or have it installed already).

You might argue that that's a "compiler" that you install, but:

a) a programming language is a purely theoritical concept without a compiler

b) for some languages language+compiler is one and the same. Either they don't have a spec, or there's only one compiler. Swift is such a case.

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Re:Ask HN: Installing Swift on ubuntu for newbie by brudgers on Saturday January 31, 2015 @12:22AM (#8975982)

On Ubuntu if I wanted to install Haskell, I would type:

    sudo apt-get install ghc

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