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Swift is Apple garbage and there is no expectation it would run on anything outside of iOS.

Crystal not working on Windows indicates to me that are implemented the run time idiotically-- should have just reused the C and C++ run time & standard libs, as this would have given them portability from the get go.

Exposing Win API or .NET is unnecessary, just allow users to call into C code for that nonsense.

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Swift runs on Linux just fine. There are web frameworks in swift. Tensorflow is working on Swift support [2]. Yes it is Apple supported but it’s open source and runs plenty of places besides iOS. You may still think it’s “garbage” but you’re misinformed about where it can be used.

[1] https://github.com/vapor/vapor [2] https://www.tensorflow.org/swift

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