It’s getting better, but for a long time it was almost impossible to code in Swift if you weren’t on a Mac.
Ever as always, Apple will care and feed its stable of developers for its platform, and remain an insular ecosystem.
Not a bad thing, they’re certainly making plenty of money off of this model, but if you’re someone who, like I am, is interested in developing applications with wider reach there’s not much draw there.
It’s getting better, but for a long time it was almost impossible to code in Swift if you weren’t on a Mac.
Ever as always, Apple will care and feed its stable of developers for its platform, and remain an insular ecosystem.
Not a bad thing, they’re certainly making plenty of money off of this model, but if you’re someone who, like I am, is interested in developing applications with wider reach there’s not much draw there.
Swift tensorflow looks like it might be a really interesting alternative to python frameworks sometime soon.
That’s the only reason I’ve found to use Swift outside of Apple’s ecosystem.
As I understand by looking at website, Kitura is a web framework. If it will be abandoned, it does not mean you will never be able use Swift on server. Isn’t it usable without Cocoa and other proprietary MacOS libs?
Perhaps one of the reasons for stopping work on it is that it looks like Vapor is more popular: https://swift.libhunt.com/compare-kitura-vs-vapor?rel=cmp-lib