Check out this talk from Ayaka on just this topic! https://realm.io/news/swift-scripting/
> On Dec 15, 2015, at 12:37 PM, @lbutlr via swift-users <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Dec 15, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: >> Swift doesn’t seem like a good fit for the kinds of tasks people write >> shell-scripts for. It’s a system/app programming language, like C/C++. >> Scripting languages have extremely dynamic typing, super-high-level APIs, >> and no separate compile/link stage. > > One possible advantage is that it would be relatively easy (instead of > nigh-impossible) to have a shell script that interacts efficiently with the > GUI. > > But yes, this is mostly meant as a way for me to get a handle on the language > by writing things I am familiar with and have some investment in. > > -- > Stone circles were common enough everywhere in the mountains. Druids > built them as weather computers, and since it was always cheaper to > build a new 33-Megalith circle than to upgrade an old slow one, there > were generally plenty of ancient ones around --Lords and Ladies > > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
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