<story><title>Swift System Is Now Open Source</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/swift-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FlyingSnake</author><text>Swift is slowly evolving into a formidable competitor to C++, and Rust. SwiftNIO, Swift on Windows and now this multiplatform System library, Swift is truly on its way to become a mainstream systems language. Exciting Tim times indeed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatever_dude</author><text>Only that Apple&amp;#x27;s track record for supporting anything long term, cross platform, &amp;quot;open&amp;quot;, is non-existent.&lt;p&gt;At this point I don&amp;#x27;t even care about how good their language is. Apple has a very, very long way to go before I can trust them on anything of that magnitude. I would instead assume they WILL pull the rug from under developers for any random reason.&lt;p&gt;(And I say this as an iOS developer)</text></comment>
<story><title>Swift System Is Now Open Source</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/swift-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FlyingSnake</author><text>Swift is slowly evolving into a formidable competitor to C++, and Rust. SwiftNIO, Swift on Windows and now this multiplatform System library, Swift is truly on its way to become a mainstream systems language. Exciting Tim times indeed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>On Apple platforms yes, on the other ones still needs to learn to walk, before it can fight.</text></comment>