“Swift will be open source later this year”
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#4No, Apple announces they intend to open source Swift at a future date. That's not the same as doing it.
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#5Well whaddaya know, I like the direction this is going with both Apple and Microsoft.
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#6I remember a thread on HN [1] from a few months ago talking about how apple was never going to do this. I'm so glad they were able to pull it off! Good for you, Apple!
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#7It also now supports Markdown in code comments
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#8This places Swift right along Golang and Rust as the new interesting language.
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#9Microsoft open sourced .NET and I don't see queues of people willing to use .NET just because it's open source.
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#10To be clear: Apple promises they will open source Swift "later this year". There's no source yet.