> On May 16, 2016, at 2:53 PM, John McCall via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > >> On May 16, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution >> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >>> On May 16, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Tim Hawkins <tim.thawk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> At what point would you consider the Linux product to be viable for >>> production server side application development. Do you think that goal has >>> been achieved in swift 3.0. Or is it going to have to wait for the ABI lock >>> down. >>> >> I'm not an expert in the Linux communities needs and desires. That said, >> from what I understand, they don’t care at all about ABI stability, since >> everything is typically built from source. > > I think it would be more appropriate to say that the server development > community generally doesn't care deeply about ABI stability (although even > there I'm sure there are exceptions). There are a lot of client-side efforts > that have very different requirements from that, though.
Our ABI considerations are also undeniably going to be Apple-focused. Anyone serious about building a client-side Swift platform on Linux should probably vet our decisions to ensure they make sense for their purposes too. -Joe _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
