Preslav Rachev

Good to see new awesome stuff still being shipped in Swift. Unfortunately it has remained largely an Apple ecosystem thing - could have become a strong contender to Python, Go and Rust with a proper marketing strategy, which Apple never really capitalized on. https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/

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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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Mar 26 at 2:42pmBuffer
Show threadIvo Limmen21h ago
@preslavrachev It does work nice on Linux. Tried to make a simpel application with it and just works. It was with an older version, one of the first that added Linux support. It had one flaw where the documentation and implementation did not really match... I am going to find out if they fixed that