@frostclaws I've been meaning to. I'm entering the trough of disillusionment with Rust and I'm curious about Swift.

Is the ecosystem still unfortunately apple-dependent?

@KevinMGranger Nope! It has official Linux support now!

And that calling out to C is a big deal - means you can use it with C libraries even if there are no Swift ones for whatever you want to do. [Which, I don't think there are many Swift-/native/ libraries on Linux, yet.] I'm doing that with PulseAudio. :3

@frostclaws "I don't think there are many Swift-/native/ libraries on Linux" is exactly what I was worried about, though.

@KevinMGranger Yeah, that's not really a thing... yet!

Although, does Kotlin really have a bunch of native libraries either? I /guess/ there's the Java ones.

@KevinMGranger I think we just tend to do things that don't require a bunch of native libraries, the times we've used libraries it's been things like PulseAudio that's just C anyway. :3

[Swift has a lot of stuff built into the standard library – including like, /networking/ even – so you often just don't need to link out I think.]