> On Dec 8, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Greg Skluzacek via swift-users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> One would surely think that a programing language as nifty and cool as Swift
> would have a easy way to read files. Maybe its obvious and I just am missing
> it.
File I/O isn’t usually part of a language, it’s part of a library. Until now
Swift has been able to depend on the Foundation framework, which includes APIs
for files. Taking Swift cross-platform severed it from the Cocoa frameworks, so
one of the resulting challenges is to create cross-platform libraries to do
basic things like file I/O. Those are in development (the Core Libraries
project.)
(Another hole in the standard library is that it’s ridiculously complex to
create a String from a UTF-8 encoded byte array without “cheating” and using
Foundation’s NSString API.)
—Jens
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