Back On My Shit 📝

Over the holidays I tried out Swift again. I really like the language. Not so much the ecosystem, there is still much churn on the non-Apple side.

The Linux version worked reasonably well on Debian using Gnome Builder and using https://aparoksha.dev/, at least until it didn’t. Out of the blue I started getting compile errors. I finally traced them down to s dependancy on a SQLite3 wrapper package buried in the dependencies in the package manager. They are furiously patching it on github, and in the meantime I get different error messages with each commit.

Charming 🌸🍭🧁.

I have a similar story using the wasm SDK

All of this is very frustrating. “Every day is Chrismas for Swift Developers”? Maybe if you can afford Apple hardware.

So fuck it. This is just one more reason to stick with c23

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