[swift-evolution] Winding down the Swift 3 release

Eric Wing ewmailing at gmail.com
Mon May 16 16:27:45 CDT 2016


> I'm not an expert in the Linux communities needs and desires.  That said,
> from what I understand, they don’t care at all about ABI stability, since
> everything is typically built from source.
>
> -Chris
>
>

Not exactly true. (I care.)

Video games (e.g. Steam/Linux) care deeply about ABI stability. And
Android cares deeply about ABI stability. Also, kind of emergent
behavior, Raspberry Pi Raspbian has kind of built a platform that
happens to have some ABI stability for now.

Thanks,
Eric


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