Apple announces that FreeBSD is a supported platform for Swift 6.2.

[majortom]

At WWDC last week, Apple announced that FreeBSD is an officially supported platform.

Nice to see this happen! Hope they will ensure that FreeBSD OCI containers will work on their new open source containerization framework and maybe even enables FreeBSD as a host platform for it.

 

[Beastie7]

YES! I'm so happy about this.

 

[majortom]

It will be quite nice to have it, especially with the new sub-process function. I want to use it for the server side components of a few systems.

 

[cracauer@]

Apple was also quite prominent on BSDCan last week.

 

[majortom]

Apple was also quite prominent on BSDCan last week.

What did they have to show?

 

[cracauer@]

What did they have to show?

Big sponsorship, person present. No talk, though.

 

[majortom]

Big sponsorship, person present. No talk, though.

Interesting. I hope this encourages them to increase support for FreeBSD in other areas, and maybe even contribute to the Foundation! :-D

 

[XNUKory]

Apple has significantly increased C++ inter making Swift is a good replacement C++ successor language. I hope it catches on.

 

[majortom]

Apple has significantly increased C++ inter making Swift is a good replacement C++ successor language. I hope it catches on.

Swift is now supported on All of Apple’s operating systems, FreeBSD, most embedded CPUs, Linux, WebAssembly and Windows. That is a pretty good starting point.