In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level system interfaces for all supported Swift platforms.
I really like this idea. Take a fairly broken, hard-to-use API and make it useable and useful. I find the multi-platform angle interesting. I've heard complaints about Go, for example, that there...
I really like this idea. Take a fairly broken, hard-to-use API and make it useable and useful.
I find the multi-platform angle interesting. I've heard complaints about Go, for example, that there are things you can't easily do with on certain platforms it because it treats all file systems like Unix file systems, and they're not. So making Swift System work with the OS it's on is interesting. It should bypass that problem.
Wooooo!
I really like this idea. Take a fairly broken, hard-to-use API and make it useable and useful.
I find the multi-platform angle interesting. I've heard complaints about Go, for example, that there are things you can't easily do with on certain platforms it because it treats all file systems like Unix file systems, and they're not. So making Swift System work with the OS it's on is interesting. It should bypass that problem.