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I would love to be able to write cross-platform desktops apps in Swift. The language isn't perfect of course but I enjoy it a lot more than the alternatives I've tried.

That possibility is still a ways down the road of course but Foundation getting a cross platform rewrite is a nice step in that direction.

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If you or others on this thread are interested in working on a Swift compiler for Windows, please reach out to me :) a good friend is hiring a team to make this happen.

How will that be different from Apple’s Swift toolchain for Windows (https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-on-windows/)?

https://youtu.be/bOMQiMxh5Bc?t=430

relevant listen is about 2min long

To me, that sounds as if most of the work would not be on the compiler but on improving the development experience (IDE, debugging support).

On the other hand, your comment said ”working on _a_ Swift compiler for Windows”. To me, that sounded like a new compiler, not adding missing features to the existing one. Which of the two is it?

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