Silver: A free implementation of Swift for .NET, Java, Android, and Cocoa

They should make it 100% free for students. Once they graduate and enter the workforce they will recommend this tool to employers.

Cool! But, is it possible that this violates Apple's TOS or any legal limitation on use of the Swift language? I remember there being a lot of heated discussion about making Swift officially open source back when it was announced, but I don't recall ever hearing anyone suggest a community project to make an OSS compiler for it. This is most interesting, but I'd love to know that Apple would be okay with this, or would have no recourse to shut it down, prior to putting in the time to pick it up.

Apple needs to buy this company in 3, 2, 1... This is an ideal start to countering the concepts from Xamarin out of the .net camp and I would love to see them build up some form of XAML-like UI tech and tooling for x-plat UI dev so you could push the envelope on code-reuse. That would take a big dump of capital.

It would also make for a push in the market for this style of x-plat dev. If you can get to the major and minor platforms with one code-base and a single-stack dev team, oh what a smooth world it could be.

Windows 10 on all devices, written in Swift to a universal in visual studio. Wonder if I'd get to see a macbook running windows with a dev writing swift in VS.

This appears to be another language frontend for their existing proprietary compiler.