[swift-users] Swift concurrency story on Linux?

[Dan Stenmark]

What’s the target timeline looking like for a complete GCD implementation?  The GitHub page explicitly states that we’re aiming for Foundation to have a complete implementation by Swift 3, but there’s no milestone information for GCD.

(I’m hacking away at NSTask right now, and I keep getting reminded of how much I wish I could use GCD on Linux.)

(Or kqueues.  Dammit, Linux.)

Dan

> On Dec 23, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Chris Lattner via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> 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).”
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> Correct.  The most recent version of libdispatch has been open sourced in https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch <https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch> and folks are actively working to improve it on Linux.
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> -Chris
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