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I’m working on a MacOS app and I started with a somewhat similar idea but with Go instead of Racket. I ended up ditching it for pure Swift. The main difference between myself and the author is that I ended up really liking Swift. Otherwise I would have stuck with my original approach.

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> More importantly, I plan to support Windows and Linux which means that writing the core in a portable language is going to minimize the amount of work I have to do as well as the differences between the implementations on each platform.

That's the main difference between you and the author.

I plan to support those too. My hope is that some of the business logic written in Swift will be shared across platforms. So the big difference is definitely how we feel about the language. Our goals are very similar.

The last I checked, Swift is not supported on Windows — and Linux support is tentative at beat. I mean, only Ubuntu is officially supported.

I can’t find anything that suggests Ubuntu is the only officially supported distro. Can you share a reference for that?

I have seen a lot of movement for Windows but you might be right that this could be a problem. My hope is that it gets resolved before I get there. Great point though. I kind of just assumed I could ship Swift on Windows.

https://swift.org/download/#releases

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