<story><title>Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift</title><url>https://oleb.net/2019/chris-lattner-swift-origins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>@50m in they discuss the problems of using Swift on non-iOS platforms.  How far is Swift from being a good cross-platform language?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chriseidhof</author><text>We wrote the Swift Talk backend in it. It’s mostly fine, but some parts are still buggy on Linux. For us, there were two or three bugs that took a few hours each (over the course of a few months of development). Apart from that, I loved Swift on the server: it’s the language I know, so it makes things really fast to build for me. The performance is amazing (both in terms of execution time as well as memory usage).</text></comment>
<story><title>Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift</title><url>https://oleb.net/2019/chris-lattner-swift-origins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>@50m in they discuss the problems of using Swift on non-iOS platforms.  How far is Swift from being a good cross-platform language?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>It’s not great, but it’s not bad in Linux. In other platforms it’s going to be a pain.</text></comment>