[swift-users] Swift concurrency story on Linux?

[Chris Lattner]

> On Dec 23, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Joshua Scott Emmons via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Dec 23, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Isaac Gouy via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> afaict the Swift concurrency story on Apple platforms has been GCD.
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>> What's going to be the Swift concurrency story on Linux?
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> According to Swift.org (https://swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/), I think GCD (aka libdispatch) is the plan for Linux as well:
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> "Here are some things that aren’t quite working yet or are planned for the future:
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> libdispatch: Part of the Core Libraries, updated Linux support is in progress. You can follow development on the libdispatch project on GitHub (https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch).”

Correct.  The most recent version of libdispatch has been open sourced in https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch and folks are actively working to improve it on Linux.

-Chris