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lorddimwit 1 year ago | link

A while ago I asked if anyone was using Swift on Linux outside of Apple. It didn’t appear to be the case then.

I wonder how that’s changed recently. I want Swift to do well on Linux, I’d like to see it come into its own on the server.
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napkindrawing 1 year ago | link
Lots of big changes / features in this release:
- SE-0291 - Package Collections
- SE-0293 - Extend Property Wrappers to Function and Closure Parameters
- SE-0295 - Codable synthesis for enums with associated values
- SE-0296 - Async/await
- SE-0297 - Concurrency Interoperability with Objective-C
- SE-0298 - Async/Await: Sequences
- SE-0299 - Extending Static Member Lookup in Generic Contexts
- SE-0300 - Continuations for interfacing async tasks with synchronous code
- SE-0304 - Structured concurrency
- SE-0306 - Actors
- SE-0307 - Allow interchangeable use of CGFloat and Double types
- SE-0308 - if for postfix member expressions
- SE-0310 - Effectful Read-only Properties
- SE-0311 - Task Local Values
- SE-0313 - Improved control over actor isolation
- SE-0314 - AsyncStream and AsyncThrowingStream
- SE-0316 - Global actors
- SE-0317 - async let bindings
- SE-0319 - Conform Never to Identifiable