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Re: Google forked Swift

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Post by nawtacawp »

Perhaps 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-facebook-uber-sw...

Re: Google forked Swift

#3

Post by rainboiboi »

nawtacawp wrote: post #2

Perhaps 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…

That would be great news. Unification of mobile programming language.

Re: Google forked Swift

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Post by AceJohnny2 »

> This branch is 48 commits behind apple:master.

Meh, looks more like a mirror.

May even have been accidental. Do you know how they decide what lands under Github's google/ umbrella?

Re: Google forked Swift

#8

Post by nawtacawp »

kvirani wrote: post #4

What does this mean in terms of their adoption / integration of the language?

I only remember reading a small tidbit about this last year:

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-sw...

"Google is said to be considering Swift as a ‘first class’ language for Android"

"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"

Re: Google forked Swift

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Post by ringaroundthetx »

rainboiboi wrote: post #3
nawtacawp wrote: post #2

Perhaps 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…

That would be great news. Unification of mobile programming language.

React is good enough for most of the mobile projects out there.

Hint: its none of the ones you use.

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