Swift beyond Apple platforms

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Swift runs a Vapor server on a Raspberry Pi and a Swift-written firmware controls a Swift IO playground board while an iOS app sends commands; the demo successfully toggles a Neopixel LED and updates the board LCD color despite flaky setup. Projects like Swift for Arduino and SwiftWASM exist, Apple accepted an embedded Swift proposal and is forming a working group, but current builds need a special toolchain and language features are being trimmed for low‑resource targets.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:36Swift as general-purpose language
3. 4:44Swift for embedded systems
4. 6:56Embedded Swift vision
5. 9:50Live hardware demo setup
6. 10:11Interactive LED demo
7. 12:18Firmware walkthrough
8. 14:06Giveaway and closing

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