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It’s been a little over a month since the second book in my KESTREL action-thriller series, entitled TOLL, was released. Lots of emotions are involved when a new book comes out: primarily relief that it’s done, but also some fear. Will people like it? Is it as good as the first one? Does it hold up as a story on its own, and not lean too heavily on the previous book?

I’m glad to say that the reviews are in, and TOLL has been very positively received so far. To those who left ratings or reviews, thank you. I’ve learned some interesting things from those comments, which I’ll mention below.

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There are a number of solutions for learning to program with
Swift on Windows, and one of the easiest is the open source project Swift for
Windows. 

With Swift for Windows you don’t have to worry about using
Docker or Ubuntu for Windows, and the solution is completely free.

Swift for Windows provides the compiler, a nice interface so you don’t have to worry about changing any paths or using the command line directly and provides support for Swift 4 (currently 4.1.3) and the Foundation classes.

You can find Swift for Windows here.

Now as far as IDE’s go there’s the free Microsoft Visual Studio Code which provides a nice lightweight solution.  The vscode-swift-syntax extension can be used for improved code highlighting.

You can download Microsoft Visual Studio Code here.

One caveat you might run into when using Swift for Windows is a conflict with another current Mingw, you can find the solution to this issue here.

That solution is to simply rename the file “x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.bat” to “x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc” found in \mingw64\bin.

While this is certainly not a complete solution for Swift
development (no iOS, Mac support, not all classes available) it can be a quick
way to get started if you are interested in learning the Swift programming
syntax.

Original article: Swift On Windows – A Native Solution For Learning Swift For Windows Users

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The greenery you see in the soil above might not look like much, but it represents a big step in space exploration. Cotton seeds brought to the Moon aboard China's Chang'e-4 mission have sprouted, marking the first time plants have grown on the luna…

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