Is that not a bit like saying "I would rather have my arms amputated than have a frontal lobotomy"?

I mean, while that's likely quite true, what i would RATHER have is neither of those two...

Good bloody riddance, in my opinion... Letting the workers escape their jails has not caused the collapse of western civilisation. At least not yet...

To abuse an old meme: "...yes, but does it run on Linux..."

It seems like Windows already has a glut of similar tools; if you wanted to make a real impact with a fairly new language, which Swift is, with massive corporate backing, which Swift has, the one would think Linux would be a far more opportune destination for an effort like this.

It already works on Linux (quite well, actually): https://swift.org/download/#releases

Swift had Linux support almost right on the beginning. I think that even Apple are supporting this effort.

Windows on the other side were started as a community effort of only one brave fellow. That later was even hired by Apple as far as i know.

I guess this is why this is much splashy than the Linux support. It was more of a community thing and less of a corporate thing as the Linux support was.

It has been running on Linux since the first day it was made available as an open source project. It specifically targeted the current and current-1 versions of Ubuntu, but now it also targets Fedora Core and a few other distros contain official packages for it.

Yes, it had official Linux support since 2015.

There are already multiple Linux toolchains available, Windows is just catching up: https://swift.org/download/

It has run on windows for years. It's fairly limited in terms of distro support, but this is a stated goal for Swift 6.

Presumably "windows" was a typo, and you meant Linux instead, but to be clear, official support for Swift on native (ie. not WSL) Windows is new in this release, and is largely the work of Saleem Abdulrasool who wrote the linked blog post.

Yes I did mean linux, thanks for the correction

Much what I was about to comment.

My mother passed away some 35-odd years away, and it really took me by surprise when I found out my little sister could visualise her and describe her from memory. I, on the other hand, could m and can recognise photos of her, but when describing her soul resort to learned facts: she was very pretty, slim, had brown hair and eyes, etc., etc.

Where the story turns, though, is how I remember things, as opposed to my academic (research professor) and artistic (painter/sculptor, and thus extremely visually oriented) wife. She continually misplaces her keys or glasses, for example. I have learnt to notice items, like them them amongst other things, and link them narritively (glasses on lounge table, keys on dishwasher, mask on sink…) and can then recall that without any real effort at a later stage.

It also fascinates her that I can read something like a programming manual like a story book and recall enough of it afterwards to put it into practice using the same manual only as a reference afterwards.

Horses for courses, I suppose.

I can do this as well (recall where a stray phone is), but don't understand why I notice and remember better than others. Do I remember more "that's out of place" instances, am I more predisposed to prefer things be in a certain place? Not sure.

My wife did her PhD in out-of-home media (which very much included billboards).

I have yet to find a more rabid opponent to out-of-home advertising (in general) and billboards (in particular), and she will explain why it is evil at the drop of the proverbial hat...

As an amateur artist she will start with visual pollution and then veer into psychological damage... /grin

Curious: does she have an argument for why in-home advertising is good, or is it just that she has not studied it?

Mostly a lack of study, it would seem, but she is anti-advertising in general as well...