# Increasing visibility of server side swift platform gaps?

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/increasing-visibility-of-server-side-swift-platform-gaps/58814>\
**Category:** Server\
**Tags:** linux\
**Created:** [July 10, 2022, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/increasing-visibility-of-server-side-swift-platform-gaps/58814 "2022-07-10T06:29:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![mickeyl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/mickeyl/32/12258_2.png) [@mickeyl](https://forums.swift.org/u/mickeyl)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/increasing-visibility-of-server-side-swift-platform-gaps/58814/2 "2022-07-11T10:00:27Z")

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In my opinion, this is a worthwhile thing, although you need to clarify how much emphasis you give to the "server" in "server side swift".

As I have [mentioned before](https://forums.swift.org/t/core-team-to-form-language-workgroup/55455/33), I'm very unhappy with the mass of feature disparity and the difference of semantics. The sad thing is, the gap is growing instead of shrinking ­– despite the warm words written on, e.g., [https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main/README.md:](https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main/README.md:)

> Our primary goal is to achieve implementation parity with Foundation on Apple platforms. This will help to enable the overall Swift goal of **portability**.

This is just not true, especially if you hop over to the issue tracker and take a look at how the community contributions get "considered".

I think the main problem is that many people in the "Server-side Swift" community seem to take the "server" very seriously, thus completely ignoring developers who want to write cross-platform software that does not necessarily do "server" things.

Yes, you can continue to tell me "Don't use Foundation on Linux", but this is bad joke, if I want the core libraries of my APPLE apps to also run on !APPLE devices.

So… yes, making the gap more visible is surely a good thing. Will it help? Probably not. Apple has their own Agenda here and seem to ignore features that they do not need.

Which really is a shame, since Swift has so much potential, in particular on Linux and embedded systems.

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