Swift interfaces with C and Objective-C natively right? I can't wait to see web servers written with it.
“Swift will be open source later this year”
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#22What a time to be alive :D
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#23No, Apple announces they intend to open source Swift at a future date. That's not the same as doing it.
As far as HN comments go, this one sets a pretty low bar.
Is there even one doubt that this will happen?
If not, the pedantic distinction between "announce they intend to" and "doing it" is extremely worthless...
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#24No, Apple announces they intend to open source Swift at a future date. That's not the same as doing it.
But the future date is pretty soon, and they call out Linux as an explicit target.
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#25No, Apple announces they intend to open source Swift at a future date. That's not the same as doing it.
You mean like when they said they were going to release the spec for FaceTime to the standards bodies the week after it was announced?
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#26I 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?
I enjoyed it well enough. Didn't feel quite mature (refactoring tools, error handling, etc) and optionals are still a little frustrating, but it definitely feels like it has potential.
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#27Apple also announced their intention to make FaceTime an open standard. Don't hold your breath.
That was on hold for legal reasons.
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#28Microsoft open sourced .NET and I don't see queues of people willing to use .NET just because it's open source.
I dunno, C# on Mono already seems to be pretty popular.
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#29Apple also announced their intention to make FaceTime an open standard. Don't hold your breath.
Well they also announced they would open up ResearchKit and that happened.
Re: “Swift will be open source later this year”
#30No, Apple announces they intend to open source Swift at a future date. That's not the same as doing it.
You guys gotta be kidding me with this shit. It's exactly as it says on the tin, Apple announced that they will open source it.