<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I'm speaking for myself here but I'm already working independent projects in Linux here. The only missing feature to my current needs it's the implementation of NSBundle methods like load(). Any idea when we'll get those implemented?<br><br>- Leonardo</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">Chris Lattner via swift-evolution</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">16/05/2016 06:07 PM</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:tim.thawkins@gmail.com">Tim Hawkins</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Cc: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">Tino Heth via swift-evolution</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Re: [swift-evolution] Winding down the Swift 3 release</span><br><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 16, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Tim Hawkins <<a href="mailto:tim.thawkins@gmail.com">tim.thawkins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><p dir="ltr">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. </p></div></blockquote>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.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div><br></body></html>