Swift is Open Source • Hacker News Board

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by cies » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:41 PM UTC

zmanian wrote: post #28

Wonders about the state of Swift on Linux? Was expecting this to be timed with the open source announcement.

And slightly more specific, Swift on Android :) LLVM compiles some code I'm working on to be part of an Android app; so it should not be too hard (as LLVM is Swift compiler backend).

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by jdub » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:41 PM UTC

Apache 2.0 License + Runtime Library Exception + copyright owned by the contributor (i.e. no assignment or CLA) + good community structure and documentation + code of conduct... well done, Apple!

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by billybilly1920 » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

Can this do GUI programming on Lin/Win? Or Are there usable gui libraries for doing cross platform development like QT?

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by krisdol » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

cdnsteve wrote: post #33

How is developing on iOS these days? Swift seems like such nice a nice language.

I find package management unscaleable (ie, it becomes more and more of headache as you pull in dependencies), but the language is much, much nicer to work with and read than Objective-C

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by keehun » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

harperlee wrote: post #20

keehun wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somebody at Apple probably wanted that sweet sweet karma. EDIT: Works at IBM. SORRY.

Well, the poster's web page says he works at IBM...

Oops. I did try to check his site, but it was coming up blank for me.

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by thepumpkin1979 » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:43 PM UTC

connorshea wrote: post #39

Swift Package Manager? It looks like Apple has developed their own version CocoaPods for Swift? Interesting.

yes, although I think it's more similar to Carthage than to Cocoapods.

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by SXX » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

Hope it's will have brighter future outside Apple ecosystem. It's nice to have more tools for server-side development, but wish it's will be better on desktop than ObjC / Cocoa / GNUstep was.

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by sdegutis » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:47 PM UTC

They're releasing the source code to libdispatch? I thought that was one of Apple's trade secrets, and more applicable than just Swift apps since it's a C lib?

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by ruddct » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:48 PM UTC

A lot of folks to thank at Apple right now, can't wait until all of this propagates so we can take a look at what's new in Swift 3. Two thoughts:

- VERY happy to see the open sourcing of much of the Foundation libraries (which includes strings, dates, networking primitives, concurrency/task queues, I/O, etc). It'll provide a very strong start and make working with Swift immediately productive.

- Holy crap, there's a package manager. This has been sorely needed since about day one of Swift development, glad to see that it's been a priority as part of the effort to open source!

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by sdegutis » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 3:48 PM UTC

iraphael wrote: post #7

golergka wrote: post #5

https://github.com/apple/ This organization has no public repositories.

The downloads page on swift.org has links though.

Not for the source code to any project.