<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Check out this talk from Ayaka on just this topic! <a href="https://realm.io/news/swift-scripting/">https://realm.io/news/swift-scripting/</a><br></div><div><br>On Dec 15, 2015, at 12:37 PM, @lbutlr via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On Dec 15, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Jens Alfke <<a href="mailto:jens@mooseyard.com">jens@mooseyard.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Swift doesn’t seem like a good fit for the kinds of tasks people write shell-scripts for. It’s a system/app programming language, like C/C++. Scripting languages have extremely dynamic typing, super-high-level APIs, and no separate compile/link stage.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>One possible advantage is that it would be relatively easy (instead of nigh-impossible) to have a shell script that interacts efficiently with the GUI.</span><br><span></span><br><span>But yes, this is mostly meant as a way for me to get a handle on the language by writing things I am familiar with and have some investment in.</span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Stone circles were common enough everywhere in the mountains. Druids</span><br><span>built them as weather computers, and since it was always cheaper to</span><br><span>build a new 33-Megalith circle than to upgrade an old slow one, there</span><br><span>were generally plenty of ancient ones around --Lords and Ladies</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>swift-users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org">swift-users@swift.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>