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life with BSD
  • life with BSD
  • 2025-09-16 Waiting on Swift mainline for FreeBSD
  • 2025-08-25 Dmesg for Cable Matters USB 3.1 to 4 port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
  • 2025-08-15 Generate a QR code with typst
  • 2025-07-31 Fixing jujutsu and leaky ascii escape sequences on FreeBSD
  • 2025-07-31 Swift now available as a package for FreeBSD
  • 2025-07-28 The FreeBSD project clarifies its stance on gen-ai powered contributions
  • 2025-07-28 The rustup question
  • 2025-07-08 Goodbye old friend, a tale
  • 2025-06-30 Configuring FreeBSD to network with a postmarketos phone over usb
  • 2025-06-25 swift (re)lands in the FreeBSD ports tree
  • 2025-06-24 typst a rust powered typesetting tool aiming at latex
  • 2025-06-19 Open Source Two Worlds thoughts
  • 2025-06-14 Taking a look at repolocli
  • 2025-06-09 Zig master builds now with FreeBSD support
  • 2025-06-07 Finding rust dependencies in Makefile.crates
  • 2025-06-05 Ripgrep or ripgrep-all
  • 2025-06-02 Ripgrep a nice Rust utility for ports spelunking
  • 2025-05-31 Get started with gpui on FreeBSD
  • 2025-05-29 Query freshports with Deno
  • 2025-05-27 Trying out Defuddle an npm tool via Deno
  • 2025-05-25 Deno for FreeBSD
  • 2025-05-23 A new beginning

2025-09-16 Waiting on Swift mainline for FreeBSD

Looks like swift 6.2 has been released. According to an earlier WWDC announcement, there was a plan to release Swift for FreeBSD based on version 6.2. However, looking at the install page on the swift website there appears to be mention of FreeBSD. There is also not much on either:

  • Swift Evolution roadmap

  • the swift forum post highlighting future FreeBSD support.

Possibly the closet showing actual code support is the following PR (WIP at this time). Based on earlier releases of Swift, it seems that around the 2nd week of September there has usually been releases for Swift around this time period. Seems that unfortunately the hoped for FreeBSD support still needs some more time baking. Perhaps for 6.3?

In the meantime Swift 5.10 is available as a package (and ports). And also on the swift.org website the following guides might be helpful if you are into the emacs or vim spectrums

  • Emacs for Swift Development

  • Neovim for Swift Development

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