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New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

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Re: New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

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Post by bobajeff »

>This change will allow Swift to expand its reach to more platforms and use cases, sparking fresh possibilities and broadening Swift’s impact across the technology landscape.

How does having a GitHub organization tangibly impact the implied goal of making Swift more impactful outside of apples devices?

Re: New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

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Post by NewJazz »

bobajeff wrote: post #3

>This change will allow Swift to expand its reach to more platforms and use cases, sparking fresh possibilities and broadening Swift’s impact across the technology landscape. How does having a GitHub organization tangibly impact the implied goal of making Swift more impactful outside of apples devices?

Having non-apple members in the language organization in GitHub seems like a nice improvement.

Re: New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

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Post by threecheese »

bobajeff wrote: post #3

>This change will allow Swift to expand its reach to more platforms and use cases, sparking fresh possibilities and broadening Swift’s impact across the technology landscape. How does having a GitHub organization tangibly impact the implied goal of making Swift more impactful outside of apples devices?

It does sound a bit silly on its face; apparently the repositories are in Apple’s org which limits access to GitHub-isms to members of Apple GH teams, and so it sounds reasonable if their goal is to extend the community beyond those limits on the GH platform.

Re: New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

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Post by bsaul »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #2

I really wish this now makes Swift worthwhile outside of the Apple ecosystem. A bit like Go.

That would be great indeed. I’ve sayed this a few times, but i believe swift’s only chance to become mainstream is now, and only by growing outside of apple.

Re: New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

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Post by pudwallabee »

bobajeff wrote: post #3

>This change will allow Swift to expand its reach to more platforms and use cases, sparking fresh possibilities and broadening Swift’s impact across the technology landscape. How does having a GitHub organization tangibly impact the implied goal of making Swift more impactful outside of apples devices?

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Re: New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

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Post by tmpz22 »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #2

I really wish this now makes Swift worthwhile outside of the Apple ecosystem. A bit like Go.

It was talked about in the Platform keynote (not the main keynote) - they're doing a lot of crossplatform work, off the top of my head:

* Enhancement of VSCode support (and any editor that integrates LSP)

* Increasing supported linux and windows platforms

* Increasing support for constrained environments (embeded? dunno)

* Continued support of community products like Vapor (web framework)

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