Apple to Open Source Swift programming language; Swift 2.0 will support Linux
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Apple to Open Source Swift programming language; Swift 2.0 will support Linux
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Swift 2.0
Today at WWDC, we announced Swift 2.0. This new version has even better performance, a new error handling API, and first-class support for availability checking. And platform APIs feel even more natural in Swift with enhancements to the Apple SDKs.
Open Source
In addition to new features, the big news is that Apple will be making Swift open source later this year. We are all incredibly excited about this, and look forward to giving you a lot more information as the open source release gets nearer. Here is what we can tell you so far:
Swift source code will be released under an OSI-approved permissive license.
Contributions from the community will be accepted — and encouraged.
At launch we intend to contribute ports for OS X, iOS, and Linux.
Source code will include the Swift compiler and standard library.
We think it would be amazing for Swift to be on all your favorite platforms.
We are excited about the opportunities an open source Swift creates for our industry. Baked-in safety features combined with excellent speed mean it has the chance to dramatically improve software versus using C-based languages. Swift is packed with modern features, it’s fun to write, and we believe it will get used in a lot of places. Together, we have an exciting road ahead.
These big money companies divide the others and make them follow unfruitful ways. Otherwise the free man power would have been used in simple, good, sustainable, fruitful works just as GNU flourished/flourishes.
I am sorry, but I fail to see how open sourcing the language that Apple has to be chosen to be their successor of Objective-C (which was the language of choice for Mac OS X development before, and if you see reviews of the Swift language it seems to be a sound concept) and making it available for other platforms (bettering cross-platform development) counts as dividing others and making them follow unfruitful ways.
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