Apple Open Sources Swift, Loosens Grip On Interactive Programing Language

[kcarbotte]

Apple’s interactive programming language, Swift, has been made into an open source platform. The Swift Project announced that it is excited to work with the community to add enhancements, find and fix bugs, and introduce Swift to new platforms.

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[borisof007]

Apple and open source rarely go together in the same sentence, unless the words "isn't", "not", "aren't", are in there XD.

With that said, I'm curious to see how this will play out long term. Lots of companies have created libraries and code for people to use that never catch on as well as they'd hoped. Groovy on Rails anyone?

 

[jasonelmore]

They only opened sourced it to Linux, and said no thanks when asked for a windows compiler

 

[toadhammer]

They only opened sourced it to Linux, and said no thanks when asked for a windows compiler

Um, feel free to help make the Windows version of LLDB. The whole llvm-related suite is coming along nicely, but I don't think it's quite ready yet.