[swift-users] Swift concurrency story on Linux?

[Chris Lattner]

> On Dec 23, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Dan Stenmark <daniel.j.stenmark at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.)

I’d suggest asking the fine folks on swift-corelibs-dev directly:
https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-corelibs-dev <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-corelibs-dev>

-Chris

> 
> Dan
> 
>> On Dec 23, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Chris Lattner via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 23, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Joshua Scott Emmons via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 23, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Isaac Gouy via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> afaict the Swift concurrency story on Apple platforms has been GCD.
>>>> 
>>>> What's going to be the Swift concurrency story on Linux?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> According to Swift.org <http://swift.org/> (https://swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/ <https://swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/>), I think GCD (aka libdispatch) is the plan for Linux as well:
>>> 
>>> "Here are some things that aren’t quite working yet or are planned for the future:
>>> 
>>> 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 <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 <https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch> and folks are actively working to improve it on Linux.
>> 
>> -Chris
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