File paths, URL and Swift JSONDecoder

I have been using a JSON file for storing configuration parameters for a command line tool I am writing. Some of these configuration items are paths to various directories like this:

{ "codeRepo" : "/Users/Blob/myRepo" }

And I have a Decodable Swift struct that can by instantiated by this configuration file:

struct Config: Decodable {
    let codeRepo: URL
}

When your JSONDecoder deserializes the JSON object into the URL it will not create a File URL. This is important for some other classes in Foundation, such as Process.

Process requires it's currentDirectoryURL and executableURL items to be set to file URLs (e.g. created with the URL(fileURLWithPath:...) initializers) otherwise it will throw the following Objective-C exception:

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSConcreteTask setExecutableURL:]: non-file URL argument'

This tool is for macOS, but now I am genuinely curious what would happen on Linux since there is no Objective-C backing for Process.