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Dancing with Daemons: Porting Swift to FreeBSD

K.3.201 | Day 1 | 16:45 - 17:10 | Speakers: Evan Wilde, Michael Chiu

Dancing with Daemons: Porting Swift to FreeBSD
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Abstract

Swift is a general-purpose programming language often associated with app development for the Apple ecosystem. Over the years, Swift has extended its reach and is now a cross-platform language with support for Linux, Windows, and more recently, Android. Now, we are bringing Swift to FreeBSD and there are truly devils in the details. How do you start porting a language to a new environment? How do you debug issues before you have a working debugger? This is the story of how we overcame challenges like these while porting Swift to FreeBSD.

Speakers

Evan Wilde

Swift compiler engineer, supporting Swift on non-Apple platforms

Michael Chiu
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