The very first Swift Blog Carnival is a wrap. Six folks took the prompt of Tiny Languages and ran with it in directions I hadn’t anticipated – from task runners and result builders to symbolic math and German verb conjugation. Thanks to everyone who participated! Here’s the roundup. Matt Massicotte starts the month with an excursion into the Tiny Languages of Task Runners in the spirit of the classic make. Thinking about it, it’s a bit weird that we have this powerful programming language and rely on scripting languages to build up projects. The community didn’t create any consensus to use a different tool and so you’ll find cmake in library projects, classic make here and there, then rake for projects that maybe embrace the CocoaPods legacy from a time where Ruby was still available as a first-class scripting tool on every Mac anyway. sake, the Swift equivalent, much more verbose by the nature of Swift, is also brought up. Matt ends with a surprise link to swift-sh – you need far…
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