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The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence

38 mentions on Hacker News by 34 people: 2 stories, 36 comments · first 2015-12-03 · latest 2024-06-12

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  1. I'm not deep in Swift, but this would make it seem a reimplementation of Foundation is open source: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/tree/main
  2. a : https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main... I wouldn't want to be the guy relying on this table advancement for his own project. The fact that they're rewriting it in pure swift probably says a lot about the quality…
    comment by bsaul · 2023-07-23 · in Mixing Swift and C++
  3. The repo for anyone interested: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation
    comment by interactivecode · 2023-05-13 · in Thoughts on Swift and Objective-C (2022)
  4. …rewrite ALL of foundation, but it had stalled on the shores of having to re-implement everything: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation The news is actually that Apple is now instead trying to define the bits/parts to support…
  5. …Like I said, I'll do things my way. For the record, here's the Swift Foundation Library: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation (I mostly write in Swift). It has plenty of open issues: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-fou…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2022-09-20 · in There is no “software supply chain”
  6. …these two versions of CFBase.c: https://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-1153.18/CFBase.c.a... https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main... (Credentials: I worked on the swift Linux port and made an effort to use these…
  7. CoreFoundation is (partially?) open-source and cross-platform now: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation
  8. …URLs is CDNs, which impose various limits on URL size. e.g. Cloudflare limits URLs to 16kb. [1] https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/b23d...
  9. …is a lot more explicit and their supposed openness comes up in fewer marketing materials. [1]: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation
  10. …As CF is present on all platforms, we can use it to provide a common implementation everywhere. https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main...
  11. The Foundation library on non-Apple platforms is open source: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation and intended to reach parity with the Apple version. > Our primary goal is to achieve implementation parity with Foundation on…
  12. …library is closed source is a complete joke in this day and age. Foundation is open source https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation
    comment by adamnemecek · 2021-12-20 · in Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15
  13. …Swift is available on Linux and Windows along with a significant chunk of its core libraries (e.g. https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation ) and app frameworks such as Vapor (used for writing web apps and APIs).
  14. …will net some other attempts. The foundation dependency is the biggest problem. You can check out https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation which gets rid of the objc runtime dependency for other platforms, though you will find…
    comment by drmidnight · 2021-03-16 · in Swift Evolution: Actors
  15. …addition to [presumably] not being inlined, does not seem easy to optimize at the hardware level: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main... The native Swift retain (swift_retain above) seems to be somewhere inside…
    comment by wahern · 2020-11-25 · in Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
  16. …is there is some effort to provide a version that works outside of Apple OSes, but it’s incomplete https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast... . If you are looking for static linking stdlib it looks like there’s still…
    comment by charrondev · 2020-09-20 · in Why Not Rust?
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    Swift-Corelibs-Foundation
    story by fractalb · 2020-06-24 · 0 comments
  18. …better off using the version of CoreFoundation that’s maintained as part of the Swift project: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/tree/mast... ...as it’s more up-to-date and developed in the open.
  19. …bring Swift to more domains, such as this for the client-side and Vapor for the server-side. [0]: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
    comment by NobodyNada · 2019-05-10 · in SwiftWasm: Run Swift in Browsers
  20. …Interestingly, the public facing version of CoreFoundation doesn't have the special-case paths: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/df3e...
  21. …working. [1]: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-2783 [2]: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-7065 [3]: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast... [4]: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio [5]: https://vapor.codes [6]: just…
    comment by veidr · 2018-03-30 · in Swift 4.1 Released
  22. There is a significant amount of functionality in Foundation unavailable on other platforms: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
    comment by beefsack · 2018-01-25 · in What's new in Swift 4.1
  23. …that are not implemented. They actually do have a good status page about this topic specifically: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
    comment by veidr · 2018-01-25 · in What's new in Swift 4.1
  24. …Another is `NS[Mutable]AttributedString` in `swift-corelibs-foundation`: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/pull/1378
    comment by eyeplum · 2017-12-31 · in Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
  25. …I'd be surprised if Swift adoption on Linux didn't quintuple or sextuple by the end of 2018. [1]: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation [2]: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
  26. …(a higher-level interface to Core Foundation) - but this is being reimplemented in Swift. See https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation Of course UIKit will still be missing, but thats sort of expected.
  27. …it, and they're talking about 4.0. It seems like Apple's giving their minimum to the community https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
    comment by paxcoder · 2017-01-26 · in What's new in Swift 3.1
  28. There are lots of things missing in the standard lib though: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast... , it is improving for sure. I am waiting for it to become more mature as well.
    comment by tejinderss · 2017-01-19 · in Interview with Chris Lattner [audio]
  29. Does this release include a cross-platform Foundations library? https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast... says they intend it to be part of Swift 3.0, but https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...…
    comment by tveita · 2016-09-14 · in Swift 3.0 Released
  30. The Foundation APIs are available on Linux in Swift 3. https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
    comment by hundchenkatze · 2016-07-13 · in 100 Days of Swift: The Tutorials
  31. Yes I do, Also Swift 3.0 is supposed to ship Foundation. https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation
    comment by magnumkarter · 2016-05-15 · in Swift for Windows
  32. It is incomplete: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/search?ut...
    comment by paxcoder · 2016-05-08 · in Implemented proposals for Swift 3
  33. Foundation is being completely rewritten in Swift in https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation The first proposal for bringing Foundation APIs to this decade has already been accepted for Swift 3:…
    comment by stepanhruda · 2016-05-07 · in Swift 3.0 Release Process
  34. …to try to actually use it right now, you'd run into lots of bits that aren't implemented yet. [1] https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
    comment by JonathonW · 2016-02-25 · in Swift Ported to Android
  35. We are long long days since that. https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch Works is well under way.
    comment by LeoNatan25 · 2016-02-25 · in Swift Ported to Android
  36. Beginnings of a Swift one in the corelibs version of Foundation: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
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    Swift 3 will get its own Foundation library
    story by marvel_boy · 2015-12-15 · 0 comments
  38. Interesting to see what they do have and what they don't have: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...
    comment by mnem · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source