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The Swift Programming Language

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Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Looks like they pulled a Golang: http://swift-lang.org

You do realise that link is completely unrelated to what Apple is doing, right? EDIT: Nevermind, my mistake. I thought the comment was about Apple was making their own language like Google did with Go, not Go! already existing as a language

That's precisely his point. There was already a pre-existing (but little-known) language called Go when Google announced theirs.

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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It seems like the only way to view the programming language documentation is on iBooks on an iOS device? For a programming book, this is ridiculous. Edit: The latest version of OS X does support iBooks. Lets hope you have that.

You can read it on a Mac too.

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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post #93

It seems like the only way to view the programming language documentation is on iBooks on an iOS device? For a programming book, this is ridiculous. Edit: The latest version of OS X does support iBooks. Lets hope you have that.

Apple has a mixed history with the openness of their tech. It could be that the only place you'll be able to run the language is on an iOS device. We'll see.

Looks like the end of the line for this particular bit of history: http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2008/11/22/why-gcc-has-a-free-ob...

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