Great news. Now if they can just make it an option on Android and Chrome and someone builds a front end and a back end framework we’re home free.
Google forked Swift
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Re: Google forked Swift
#42Perhaps this is the start of moving Android Apps to Swift. Which, per rumor was considered last year: "About the time Swift was going open source, representatives for three major brands — Google, Facebook and Uber — were at a meeting in London discussing the new language. Sources tell The Next Web that Google is considering making Swift a “first class” language for Android" https://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google…
maybe 'was'? kotlin is the official google's recommendation for android now... (and kotlin can have multiple 'backends' -- e.g. build-to-java / native / web / etc)
Kotlin could just be a stopgap, though. It’s still a JVM language so it’s an easier migration, and from what little I’ve seen it doesn’t add very much other than syntactic sugar for null checks.
Re: Google forked Swift
#43Perhaps this is the start of moving Android Apps to Swift. Which, per rumor was considered last year: "About the time Swift was going open source, representatives for three major brands — Google, Facebook and Uber — were at a meeting in London discussing the new language. Sources tell The Next Web that Google is considering making Swift a “first class” language for Android" https://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google…
As mentioned above, this fork is for staging patches written by some folks that are part of an internal-facing IOS tooling team.
Nothing more. They aren't related to or even located organizationally anywhere near Android.
Re: Google forked Swift
#44This is being used as a staging place for putting patches so they can be turned into pull requests, nothing more. Sorry to bust any conspiracy theories. (You can see this happens on >100 of the swift forks :P)
Thanks for response. Just curious - seems you saw this and replied in about 20 minutes of the post. Impressive speed. I know about google alerts etc and hacker news is popular, but curious how exactly you found this post so quickly? Someone saw it and pinged you or some automatic way?
Re: Google forked Swift
#45This is being used as a staging place for putting patches so they can be turned into pull requests, nothing more. Sorry to bust any conspiracy theories. (You can see this happens on >100 of the swift forks :P)
Thanks for response. Just curious - seems you saw this and replied in about 20 minutes of the post. Impressive speed. I know about google alerts etc and hacker news is popular, but curious how exactly you found this post so quickly? Someone saw it and pinged you or some automatic way?
People have a tendency to ping me either about languages or open source stuff, especially when it seems a bit off the rails.
So basically either legal problems or go generics. It's a fun life.
Re: Google forked Swift
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank God. Otherwise this seemed like a very Microsoft/Java strategy.
I also worried having two different languages -- Google Swift and Apple Swift.
Maybe you should have tried to find out what this is about before posting it with a completely made up title?
Re: Google forked Swift
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for response. Just curious - seems you saw this and replied in about 20 minutes of the post. Impressive speed. I know about google alerts etc and hacker news is popular, but curious how exactly you found this post so quickly? Someone saw it and pinged you or some automatic way?
People have a tendency to ping me either about languages or open source stuff, especially when it seems a bit off the rails. So basically either legal problems or go generics. It's a fun life.
Thanks for the reply - having a good network definitely helps in these situations. Thanks for the openness and honesty
Re: Google forked Swift
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also worried having two different languages -- Google Swift and Apple Swift.
Maybe you should have tried to find out what this is about before posting it with a completely made up title?
It's not a "made up title", Google did in fact fork Swift on GitHub. That doesn't mean anything in an of itself, thousands of people/organizations have also done so, but it's mildly interesting since it's Google, and because it was posted here, we now know why.
Don't see a problem.
Re: Google forked Swift
#49Hi! I’m one of the engineers on this. We’ve got some work we’re collaborating on - all of which is going upstream - and we wanted a shared place to stage it while we prepare PRs. I’ll be pushing a statement to our fork tomorrow. (I’m personally working on Bazel rules and contributions to lib/Syntax. If you find that exciting, please get in touch! :)
Why fork it then? Why just not use the existing process?
Re: Google forked Swift
#50Hi! I’m one of the engineers on this. We’ve got some work we’re collaborating on - all of which is going upstream - and we wanted a shared place to stage it while we prepare PRs. I’ll be pushing a statement to our fork tomorrow. (I’m personally working on Bazel rules and contributions to lib/Syntax. If you find that exciting, please get in touch! :)
Why fork it then? Why just not use the existing process?
Because forking IS the process on GitHub. People and teams with no write access to the main repo can fork it and submit a pull request.