swift-protobuf

Plugin and runtime library for using protobuf with Swift

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Plugin and runtime library for using protobuf with Swift

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2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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> Why should they? That isn't their target audience. Because they need it? Apple discontinued macOS server, i bet they use Linux in some of their servers All their networking related libs are available and tested for Linux [1, 2, 3] Let's not forget that they package Swift for Linux, and now also for Windows [4] Swift is a cross-platform language (you not wanting to understand it doesn't change this fact), it's not a macOS framework [1] - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio [2] - https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf/blob/main/.github/wo... [3] - https://github.com/apple/swift-distributed-actors/search?q=l... [4] - https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-5-6-2-for-linux-...