> On Jan 4, 2016, at 9:07 AM, Sherri McGurnaghan via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> I am trying to do something super simple using Swift - we are changing our
> infrastructure and the new environment requires me to work with Swift.
> Needless to say, I am a complete newbie and a bit lost on where to go first /
> start.
Unfortunately this isn’t the sort of thing that’s super simple with Swift right
now, at least not on Linux. Swift doesn’t have a mature standard library yet
for tasks like I/O, because on Apple platforms it’s been able to use the
underlying Cocoa frameworks. There’s a project to create a new cross-platform
standard library, but it’s in the early stages.
It’s definitely possible to call directly into C standard library functions
like fopen and fwrite, but it requires knowledge of how C bridging works, and
involves using special types like UnsafePointer. (There was a thread here a few
weeks ago about how to do file I/O, if you want to search for it.)
Six months from now, doing some file copying with Swift should be a no-brainer!
But for now I’d avoid it as a newbie task. If you just want a project to learn
the language itself, I’d suggest doing some “CS 101” type exercises like
implementing binary trees or computing prime numbers. Apple’s Swift book has
some interesting sample programs in it too.
—Jens
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