Using the C library from Swift: thoughts

[0xTim (Tim)]

Cross posting as I meant to add it to here

[Pitch] Cross-Platform C Library Access

Reviewing Vapor's codebase we have several files where we do: #if canImport(Glibc) import Glibc #elseif canImport(Musl) import Musl #elseif canImport(Android) import Android #else import Darwin.C #endif Which does feel like there should be something higher level just to call down to some fairly simple C APIs or offer a better abstraction on top. (It feels like Swift System should be this but the guidance isn't particularly clear and it obiously doesn't cover everything we use