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Hi @compnerd

I've been using the BC swift toolchain for some PoC projects and it works great!
But for the next steps, to promote into a real project, the team in wondering if the changes made into the BC swift-build will make into the official swift-build.

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Which changes are you referring to? For the most part, they should be nearly identical except for when the toolchain is built. However, there is some divergence being considered now to enable new functionality as we are working towards enabling a better Android experience while trying to improve the Windows experience as well.

The big difference currently between the two is that the TBC toolchain distribution contain Android SDKs which allow you to target Android and Windows from the same toolchain. There are some plans to consider further changes to improve the compiler performance. It is not entirely clear what the timelines are for getting those changes merged back into mainline. Additionally, there may be other future changes we might consider to enable a better remote debugging experience. Timelines for merging this functionality back into mainline is unclear too.

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oh! Now that you mentioned the build timeframe I see my mistake.
I was comparing different versions!

Sorry for that.

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I cannot manage to get any of the recent TBC swift distributions to work at all.