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“Swift will be open source later this year”

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Re: “Swift will be open source later this year”

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Post by cpr »

Nice to see that Chris (Lattner) got his way. I chatted with him last WWDC right after the main Swift technical session, and he expressed the desire to open source it, but had no idea if he could get it through the powers that be.

Supporting the standard libraries on Linux is certainly a surprise, though.

Re: “Swift will be open source later this year”

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Post by seivan »

Swift on Rails, who's first :) ? I suspect Heroku are working on preparing for an out of the box build pack, but I guess they don't have access yet since it's out late 2015. At least I hope so, looking for a better Ruby replacement but I still like Rails.

Re: “Swift will be open source later this year”

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Post by chc »

LesZedCB wrote: post #6

I 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! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8488808

They haven't pulled it off yet. They've just finally stated that they intend to do so, not actually done it yet. Prior to this, they hadn't even said it was on the table. So, progress, but they still haven't pulled it off.

Re: “Swift will be open source later this year”

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Post by chc »

dmritard96 wrote: post #15

I will surely be downvoted for speaking so off the cuff, but I haven't really enjoyed swift so far. How has the general developer reception been to the language, not just with respect to obj-c, but also to java or any other turing complete language?

You'd probably get more upvotes if you didn't start out by complaining about hypothetical downvotes.
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