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ZDnet reports that, concurrent with the release of version 2.2 of its implementation of the Swift programming language, Apple Inc. has made available a port of the compiler, standard libraries, debugger and REPL (a CLI) to the Ubuntu operating system. The port does not include the core libraries, which the company says are not suitable for production use. The language is frequently used in software intended to run under Apple's OS X and iOS operating systems.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 28 2016, @03:31PM
Will it work on Unixes without systemd ?
Trick question. No self-respecting Unix system (or derivative) uses SystemD in the first place!
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Monday March 28 2016, @04:31PM
There already are Unixes that has been RedHated..
The next step is Extinguish by requiring systemd API for applications.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday March 28 2016, @06:29PM
No self-respecting Unix system (or derivative) uses SystemD in the first place!
Why?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 28 2016, @11:28PM
Why?
The Unix philosophy [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 29 2016, @12:48PM
Besides the oft repeated "ignores Unix philosophy", systemd does some things right but get so many others wrong. The most offensive of all is the fact that systemd is worming its way into desktop software via low level libraries making desktop environments only compatible with systemd. This means XFCE, Gnome, Mate, etc, will be incompatible with non-systemd Linux and *BSD without systemd shims or a fork. How the hell did we go from an init system to a core library? It's creators know nothing of good design, simplicity or usability. They simply want a feather in their cap. Fuck em.