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swift-corelibs-foundation
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Mixing Swift and C++
a : https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main...
I wouldn't want to be the guy relying on this table advancement for this project. The fact that they're rewriting it in pure swift probably says a lot about the quality of the current approach.
b: makes absolutely no difference from a developer perspective. if you want to run threads in swift you're going to use gcd.
c: my take with all apple software tech has been to wait until they've dogfooded their own tech long enough to make it useable. Worked very well for me so far, thank you very much.
- Roast my supposedly impressive iOS developer resume
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Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Framework
Correction: rewrite of PARTS of Foundation
There already was an open-source project to rewrite ALL of foundation, but it had stalled on the shores of having to re-implement everything:
https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation
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Apple's Swift rewrite of its Foundation framework will be open source
The (shitty) old Linux implementation has been on GitHub for years.
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There is no “software supply chain”
Sigh... The traditional argument is that every dependency is of the same quality and trustworthiness of the language Standard Library.
If I use the SL, then I should also have no problem using some lashed-up chimera that has a dependency hierarchy that spans three continents.
Like I said, I'll do things my way.
For the record, here's a peek at some of the "worthless" packages that I use in my own work: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware
Also, for the record, here's the Swift Foundation Library: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation
It has plenty of open issues: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/issues
If every dependency chain can match these, yhen I'll be open to considering them.
As it is, I do use the occasional external package, but I'm picky.
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A Completely Open-Source Implementation of Apple Code Signing and Notarization
CoreFoundation is (partially?) open-source and cross-platform now: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation
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Show HN: Particles – the URL contains the whole program code
Partly this is doable because although RFC 2616 specifies a max URL length of 2048 bytes, most browsers allow much longer, with Chrome and Firefox allowing at least 64k chars (that's what they'll display but it seems like more is happily processed), while Safari allows URL strings up to 2GB in size[1]!
[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/b23d...
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What is missing in the Swift ecosystem?
Regarding your point #3, Swift does indeed have an open-source cross-platform implementation of Foundation. swift-corelibs-foundation
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Is "import Foundation" always required in Swift code?
Foundation is open source and (mostly) works on Linux. What else do you want to see “opened up?”
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Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15
Foundation is not the standard library of Swift. Swift has its own standard library that is bundled with the language on all platforms that are supported.
And Foundation itself isn't written in Swift, a good portion is written in C.
> A significant portion of the implementation of Foundation on Apple platforms is provided by another framework called CoreFoundation (a.k.a. CF). CF is written primarily in C and is very portable. Therefore we have chosen to use it for the internal implementation of Swift Foundation where possible. As CF is present on all platforms, we can use it to provide a common implementation everywhere.
https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main...
JWM
- Running IntelliJ IDEA with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal
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Fast and Elegant Clojure: Idiomatic Clojure without sacrificing performance
sigh
Yeah. I am very bullish on Kotlin. Think it's probably the most exciting language evolving right now.
I went on a few-tweet minirant here about why:
https://twitter.com/GavinRayDev/status/1443279425311805440
But the tl;dr is that:
- There is Jetpack Compose currently, for Desktop, Web, and Android
- And Kotlin Native putting a large portion of resources into Skia bindings (JetBrains calls the lib "Skiko" for Kotlin Native https://github.com/JetBrains/skiko and "Skija")
It's very clear (and there are some employees which have confirmed this IIRC) that they are working on "Jetpack Compose Everywhere" that runs on iOS as well, from a single codebase.
There's the big Kotlin event going on right now, where they just announced the new WASM backend and changes in their compiler + IR commonizing/restructuring ("K2").
- https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/10/the-road-to-the-k2...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqz9sKXatw
The net result is that you wind up with a single language that you can use to write your backend API, your UI code (Jetpack Compose app deployed across Web/Android/iOS/Mac/Win/Linux, or transpile to JS/TS if you just want a web app, etc) and with Kotlin Native even your native, low-level code to integrate with existing C/C++ etc ecosystem.
KN already does automatic bindgen for C and Swift headers, they have direct C++ interop (like Swift does) on their future roadmap as a potential "todo".
All of this is mostly possible already -- I can do the same thing using IE Java, GraalVM, and a transpiler like Google's j2cl or bck2brwser (which is what Gluon uses for JavaFX on the web). Including the "native" part.
IE, here's a contribution I made to get GraalVM producing native binaries using Skia from the JVM + JNI Jetbrains Skia library:
https://github.com/HumbleUI/JWM/issues/158
But Kotlin is pushing the hardest to make this whole platform/stack from native <-> desktop <-> mobile <-> browser a seamless, unified experience. And you can feel it, when you try to do the "whole stack, every platform, one language" thing.
Sorry for the rant and wall of text!
- Thoughts on Clojure UI framework
- The web is swallowing the desktop whole and nobody noticed (2017)
What are some alternatives?
Unwrap - Learn Swift interactively on your iPhone.
tiled - Flexible level editor
google-api-objectivec-client-for-rest - Google APIs Client Library for Objective-C for REST
datascript - Immutable database and Datalog query engine for Clojure, ClojureScript and JS
swift - The Swift Programming Language
skiko - Kotlin MPP bindings to Skia
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Petalisp - Elegant High Performance Computing
Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
criterium - Benchmarking library for clojure
swift-evolution - This maintains proposals for changes and user-visible enhancements to the Swift Programming Language.
skija - Java bindings for Skia