How are we supposed to take OSS Swift serious when we don't get timely Hotfixes?

[xwu (Xiaodi Wu)]

@robertjpayne

However, Swift 5.0.1 was released on April 18th 2019 with a fatal bug in Calendar.current which causes a crash. The only viable work around is to hardcode the calendar (which kinda sucks). This bug is already fixed but waiting for a release.

No other programming language will take nearly 90 days to release a hotfix for a fatal bug like this. It's a bit of a shame, we use Swift on the server and have committed to using it for over two years but we can't use the Swift 5.0 toolchain and the latest release of Xcode yet because this bug is holding back our server side deployments.

Not sure which bug you’re referring to. The OSS release of Swift does indeed have a process for incorporating important hotfixes. But, by the mention of Xcode it sounds like you’re referring to the Apple builds, which are controlled by Apple. Moreover, on Apple platforms, Foundation (which vends Calendar) isn’t open source.