@OP: Please change title to "Swift will be Open Source soon" until the git repositories become actually available.
Swift is Open Source
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Re: Swift is Open Source
#72@OP: Please change title to "Swift will be Open Source soon" until the git repositories actually available.
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#73The more I think about this, the more I wonder how existing third-party libraries will respond. Similar to Android and Java, I'd imagine we'll start seeing "vanilla" Swift libraries crop up that only use public/standard libraries and can work on iOS/OS X apps as well as open source projects.
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#74I wonder if Apple is positionning it as a competitor to Google's Go? They are hinting at a usage beyond just iOS and OS X.
I think they will co-exist as separate languages for separate problem-solving approaches. Go has first class support for channels and duck-type interfaces, for starters.
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#75I wonder if Apple is positionning it as a competitor to Google's Go? They are hinting at a usage beyond just iOS and OS X.
There is at least already work being done on Swift for server-side development, and a developer behind this just commented that they are getting to work at this moment: https://www.perfect.org/ https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect
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#76Fantastic news that Swift is now open-source, though it came about 4 hours too late for my GotoBerlin presentation on Swift 2 Under the Hood (on SpeakerDeck at https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/swift-2-under-the-hood-gotobe... if you're interested)
I've also open-sourced the SIL Inspector that I demonstrated (https://github.com/alblue/SILInspector) and written up a post on InfoQ covering the important points of this release
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#77The Swift port for Linux seems to only support x86-64 for now. https://swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/ I would like to see how swift could run on Linux ARM devices (Raspberry Pi 2/Beagleboard/etc) and other platforms; given that the runtime is already on iOS devices. Kudos to Apple for open-sourcing Swift.
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#78It looks like Apple is also releasing an official package manager for swift.[1] I wonder how that will effect Cocoapods. [1] https://swift.org/package-manager
Check Twitter, they are more than happy to see their work deprecated.
Both Cocoapods and Carthage should eventually be phased out with an official package manager.
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#79Testing the binaries on ubuntu decompressed to to $HOME/swift and trying to execute swift: Welcome to Swift version 2.2-dev (LLVM 46be9ff861, Clang 4deb154edc, Swift 778f82939c). Type :help for assistance. 1> help opening import file for module 'SwiftShims': No such file or directory 1> I could not find any mention to environment variables that could be used to override default locations, like SWIFT_LIBRARY_PATH or s…
Run Systrace on it and you'll see what it is looking for.
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#80A Golang killer?