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LLVM talk on Porting Swift to Windows
This goes pretty in-depth on what sort of things were involved in bringing Swift to Windows. [video
It sounds pretty intense.
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2019 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: S. Abdulrasool “Porting by a 1000 Patches: Bringing Swift to Windows”
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- Presented by Saleem Abdulrasool
- Linked in the descriptionSlides on llvm.org
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Saleem Abdulrasool shares the technical challenges and solutions involved in porting the Swift compiler and runtime to Windows.
llvm.org/devmtg/2019-10/ — Porting by a 1000 Patches: Bringing Swift to Windows - Saleem Abdulrasool Slides: llvm.org/devmtg/2019-10/slides/Abdulrasool-BringingSwiftToWi… — Swift is a modern language based upon the LLVM compiler framework. It takes advantage of Clang to provide seamless interoperability with C/C++. The Swift compiler and language are designed to take advantage of modern Unix facilities to the fullest, and this made porting to Windows a particularly interesting task. This talk covers the story of bringing Swift to Windows from the ground up through an unusual route: cross-compilation on Linux. The talk will cover interesting challenges in porting the Swift compiler, standard library, and core libraries that were overcome in the process of bringing Swift to a platform that challenges the Unix design assumptions. — Videos Filmed & Edited by Bash Films: BashFilms.comWhy it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Engineers recommend this talk for its in-depth look at the intense engineering effort required to bring Swift to Windows.