# SwiftScript

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/swiftscript/62>\
**Category:** Discussion\
**Created:** [December 3, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/swiftscript/62 "2015-12-03T23:40:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/swiftscript/62/1 "2015-12-03T23:40:22Z")

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Swift can already be used as a scripting language on OS X. Just chmod+x and shebang the file (#!/usr/bin/env xcrun swift -i).

As for using it on iOS and the web in the same way as JavaScript/ECMAScript, I personally think Swift is too young for that. IIRC, the authors wanted to go for systems programming next. But I certainly hope Swift’s popularity explodes into all kinds of domains and environments. :-)

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> > On 04 Dec 2015, at 00:32, swift-evolution-request@swift.org wrote:
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> > From: Dave Thornton \<dave.thornton@me.com \<mailto:dave.thornton@me.com\>\>  
> > Date: 4 December 2015 at 00:22:10 GMT+1  
> > To: swift-evolution@swift.org \<mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org\>  
> > Subject: [swift-evolution] SwiftScript
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> > Swift is great. I'd like to see a syntactically equivalent script language available for OS X, iOS and other platforms.
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> > This is a big task, and one that probably falls way outside of the objectives of the core swift language evolution.
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> > But... Does anyone else think it's a good idea / bad idea? How and where should we start ?
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> > Sent from my iPad