> On May 16, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On May 16, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Tim Hawkins <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> At what point would you consider the Linux product to be viable for 
>> production server side application development. Do you think that goal has 
>> been achieved in swift 3.0. Or is it going to have to wait for the ABI lock 
>> down. 
>> 
> I'm not an expert in the Linux communities needs and desires.  That said, 
> from what I understand, they don’t care at all about ABI stability, since 
> everything is typically built from source.

I think it would be more appropriate to say that the server development 
community generally doesn't care deeply about ABI stability (although even 
there I'm sure there are exceptions).  There are a lot of client-side efforts 
that have very different requirements from that, though.

John.
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