[swift-evolution] Winding down the Swift 3 release

[Joe Groff]

> On May 16, 2016, at 2:53 PM, John McCall via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On May 16, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>> On May 16, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Tim Hawkins <tim.thawkins at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> At what point would you consider the Linux product to be viable for production server side application development. Do you think that goal has been achieved in swift 3.0. Or is it going to have to wait for the ABI lock down. 
>>> 
>> 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.
> 
> I think it would be more appropriate to say that the server development community generally doesn't care deeply about ABI stability (although even there I'm sure there are exceptions).  There are a lot of client-side efforts that have very different requirements from that, though.

Our ABI considerations are also undeniably going to be Apple-focused. Anyone serious about building a client-side Swift platform on Linux should probably vet our decisions to ensure they make sense for their purposes too.

-Joe