Google is the company developing it with Chris Latner in charge

pjmlp · on Nov 28, 2019

And thanks to it they decided on a language that is barely workable outside Apple's eco-system, instead of more mature alternatives.

I don't have big hopes for the project.

girvo · on Nov 28, 2019

I’m definitely not disagreeing with you, but the Linux story isn’t completely horrible mostly due to IBM’s work. Though I’ve no idea if they’ve kept pace with the macOS version and tooling, it’s been a couple years since I looked. A shame, I quite like it as a language.

pjmlp · on Nov 29, 2019

IBM seems to have lost interest.

Kitura last commit was on June 2018.

And even with all that support, it is not possible to write OS independent Swift without kludges (import darwin vs glibc, really?).

Also many enterprises impose Windows desktops, so none of their dev divisions would even consider Tensorflows's Swift variant, regardless how well it would be doing on GNU/Linux.