Comment on Why I want Swift to be your first languageparentComments−Apocryphon11yHm, do you think it'll only take a month for it to be ported to Windows?−gorena11yI'm not an LLVM expert, but Swift is an LLVM frontend, so once it's open source, I think it should work for the various backends?Right now the issue is library support - swiftc can already just spit out LLVM IR: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/2427The stdlib would be included in the open source release.Linux boxes would fulfill "non-Apple product" though. Unixy programming languages like Swift and Python have always been weird on Windows.−dman11yCould you elaborate on Python being weird on Windows?−AstralStorm11yPython is a set of packages. On Windows, you're supposed to use a distribution, such as Anaconda.Even then, building some of the fancier libraries (with native code) by hand is bit involved.In fact, Anaconda works very well on Windows, as long as you don't require extreme latest versions of modules.
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Hm, do you think it'll only take a month for it to be ported to Windows?
I'm not an LLVM expert, but Swift is an LLVM frontend, so once it's open source, I think it should work for the various backends?
Right now the issue is library support - swiftc can already just spit out LLVM IR: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/2427
The stdlib would be included in the open source release.
Linux boxes would fulfill "non-Apple product" though. Unixy programming languages like Swift and Python have always been weird on Windows.
Could you elaborate on Python being weird on Windows?
Python is a set of packages. On Windows, you're supposed to use a distribution, such as Anaconda.
Even then, building some of the fancier libraries (with native code) by hand is bit involved.
In fact, Anaconda works very well on Windows, as long as you don't require extreme latest versions of modules.