[swift-evolution] SwiftScript

[Chris Lattner]

> On Dec 3, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Dave Thornton <dave.thornton at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Swift is great.  I'd like to see a syntactically equivalent script language available for OS X, iOS and other platforms.
> 
> This is a big task, and one that probably falls way outside of the objectives of the core swift language evolution.
> 
> But... Does anyone else think it's a good idea / bad idea?  How and where should we start ?

I’m not sure if this is specifically what you’re thinking of, but we aren’t interested in a language variant or dialect as part of the Swift project.  Instead, we’d prefer to improve the Swift language itself to be appealing for solving the problems that people use scripting languages for.

-Chris