Mastodawn

Swift 6.3

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/

Swift 6.3 Released

Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs.

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0x3f 2d ago

> Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack.

It's a nice lang for sure, but this will never be true with the way things are. Such wasted opportunity by Apple.

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frizlab 2d ago

How so? I can indeed target every layer of the software stack using Swift, today.

E.g. ClearSurgery[0] is written fully in Swift, including the real-time components running on the Linux boxes.

[0] https://clearsurgery.vision

ClearSurgery | Spatial Computing for Surgeons

ClearSurgery brings spatial computing into operating rooms with Apple Vision Pro-ready workflows for modern surgical teams.

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zarzavat

I don't know why anyone would want to use Apple tools if they are not developing for Apple platforms. Apple barely maintains compatibility for their own platforms, using Swift on a non-Apple platform is setting yourself up for doubule pain.