[swift-users] Documentation for Linux Development

[Steven Harms]

Jack,

Thanks for the reply. It's genuinely appreciated.

Is there any constructive action the community can take to promote that
these knowledge assets be made as "open source" as the language that
implements their ideas?

Thanks for the helpful suggestions,

Steven






On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Jack Lawrence <jackl at apple.com> wrote:

> Hi Steven,
>
> The Swift book is also available on the web here: https://developer.apple.
> com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_
> Language/
>
> The reference for the swift standard library is available on the web here:
> https://developer.apple.com/reference/swift
>
> We don't currently ship offline copies of the documentation outside of
> Xcode.
>
> Jack
>
> On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Jon Shier via swift-users <
> swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>
> http://swiftdoc.org is a good online reference, though not always
> completely up to date (just mostly).
>
>
> Jon
>
> On Dec 18, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Steven Harms via swift-users <
> swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been playing with Swift in Linux contexts, but I was wondering, how
> is one meant to consult reference work?
>
> The Swift language book is written in iBooks...so I don't have access to
> that in Linux. I'd love for there to be a PDF equivalent that I could leave
> on the Linux environment to work with.
>
> Alternatively, is there a rich HTML download of the API? I'm used to Perl
> and Ruby which shipped rich HTML pages that allowed you to research the API
> sans network connection.
>
> I hate to think an IDE is required to use a language e.g. XCode. Surely we
> should be able to code without an IDE's completion. I may be tempting the
> nursing home by thinking vim and good docs should cut it :blush:.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steven
>
>
>
>
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