Swift is Open Source • Hacker News Board

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:10 PM UTC

pcwalton wrote: post #177

justplay wrote: post #167

I still remember max howel tweet[1] in which he publicly said that we was rejected by Google. Looking at his linkedin profile[2] , he was later hired by Apple in August 2015. Now he is biggest[3] contributed to Swift package manager. It is good to see that the person who has lot of experience in handing Apple and package system is handing this stuff. I guess, things happens for good. [1] https://twitter.com/mxcl/stat…

It's really great to see Apple investing in package management for Swift. Handling dependencies and versioning well is so important for a language to get right out of the gate.

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Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by k__ » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:11 PM UTC

justplay wrote: post #167

I still remember max howel tweet[1] in which he publicly said that we was rejected by Google. Looking at his linkedin profile[2] , he was later hired by Apple in August 2015. Now he is biggest[3] contributed to Swift package manager. It is good to see that the person who has lot of experience in handing Apple and package system is handing this stuff. I guess, things happens for good. [1] https://twitter.com/mxcl/stat…

Now I feel better about my past rejections that were based on such stuff.

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by jorgecastillo » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:11 PM UTC

baldfat wrote: post #124

jorgecastillo wrote: post #24

At first I was like 'AWESOME', than I was like 'oh fuck, not ready yet'. I am not upvoting this, until there is a GitHub repository that I can clone!

There is a GitHub Repo you can clone. Just had an issue with traffic.

AWESOME!

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by cmyr » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:12 PM UTC

AlphaSite wrote: post #190

There is one more very interesting project under the swift umbrella: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch so now swift should have a useful approach to concurrency.

Looks like they need to port GCD/libdispatch so they can implement a native concurrency model on top of it in Swift 3(?).

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by therockhead » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:12 PM UTC

Any news regarding Swifts ability to interoperate with CPP, like Objective C++?

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by piratebroadcast » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:13 PM UTC

Maybe now we can add a way to get a random value from an array like array,sample in Ruby. Lots of work currently to do such a simple thing in Swift.

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by agp2572 » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:14 PM UTC

Now all we need is a transpiler that converts Swift to Javascript.

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by jkyle » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:14 PM UTC

throwaway6497 wrote: post #164

ejdyksen wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also of note, the largest contributor to the package manager is Max Howell (mxcl), the creator of Homebrew: https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/graphs/contri...

The same guy who wasn't offered a job at Google because he didn't do well in the interview (or was it code in the interview?)

Google doesn't provide feedback on why they reject you. For example, you could be the world's foremost expert on Erlang. But the department interviewing you needs a C++ programmer.

You'd never know that was the reason. You'd just be notified that you weren't called back for another interview and asked to please check back for more positions in a few months.

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:15 PM UTC

mwcampbell wrote: post #195

Interesting that they rewrote the Foundation library in Swift for the open-source release rather than open-sourcing the ObjC one and bringing along the ObjC runtime. I wonder if this means they still believe the ObjC runtime and Foundation library are still worth keeping proprietary, or just that this is a step toward phasing out ObjC.

If you watch the WWDC 2015 videos, the only ones that used Objective-C instead of Swift were related to the language improvements.

I guess that says it all.

Re: Swift is Open Source

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Post by mingodad » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 6:16 PM UTC

nikon wrote: post #112

Github repo is live now. https://github.com/apple/swift First ever commit found here https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/afc81c1855bf711315b8e5...

Interesting there is no link to add issues to those repositories !