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Swift 5.2

by andrewbarba on 3/24/20, 11:19 PM with 41 comments

• by ashton314 on 3/24/20, 11:54 PM

  Looks like a solid update on first glance. I nearly tore my hair out last month building a SwiftUI app. The error messages were terrible—I had never seen such poor error messages. I'm so glad they're addressing that.

• by xscott on 3/25/20, 2:52 AM

  Has anyone had good luck getting Swift running on Linux? Many versions ago, I had it working under Ubuntu, and it seemed really nice. I particularly liked having a REPL for this style of language.

  However since then, I've had very limited success under Ubuntu, CentOS, and Arch. Different failures on each. Every few releases or so I give it a go, but something always fails and I go back to working on some other pet project.

• by rnantes on 3/25/20, 1:54 AM

  A great update to a safe and ergonomic language. The best is still yet to come with Swift on Windows and Android, SPM Resources, and of course Async/Await.

• by hashbig on 3/25/20, 1:57 AM

  All I want is official Swift support for an http server, and a web frontend framework using SwiftUI.

• by pjmlp on 3/25/20, 7:25 AM

  So import Glibc is still a thing?

• by abjecton on 3/25/20, 7:25 AM

  I see some huge changes there, including the error messages!

• by elpakal on 3/25/20, 1:55 AM

  looking forward to the improved build times!