Anyone running Swift in balenaCloud?

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I’ve started to experiment with running a Swift based app on a RaspberryPi using balenaCloud.

I was able to get a proof of concept up and running pretty quickly using a pre-built dockerized Swift toolchain here: https://hub.docker.com/r/helje5/rpi-swift-dev/

For now I’m using Swift 4.1.2 as my base image for both build and runtime.

While Swift on ARM Linux isn’t officially supported (only x86-64), there appears to be growing community support.

Has anyone else experimented with running Swift on balena? I’d love to hear about it.

Cheers,
Will

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@wlisac I haven’t seen many others doing it yet, but that is super cool. Its something I have thought would be fun to try some day, now it won’t be as difficult. Does swift have much in the way of GPIO or sensor libraries yet?

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So far I’ve been focusing on Bluetooth (scanning for beacons, connecting to BLE devices, etc). I’ve been using https://github.com/PureSwift/Bluetooth to accomplish most of that.

As far as GPIO, I’d like to try that next. This looks promising, but I haven’t used it yet: