“As promised earlier in the year, Apple’s Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and standard library functions and objects,” Benjamin Mayo reports for 9to5Mac.
“Open-sourcing Swift is a big win for the developer community as it means Swift can now be setup to run on a server and many other use cases,” Mayo reports, “bringing Apple programming talent and expertise beyond ‘just’ making apps iOS devices and Macs.”
“Making Swift open-source also gives the developer community as a whole more confidence in the language,” Mayo reports. “Theoretically, if Apple ever decided to move away from Swift (which is unlikely), the language could be picked up by others and continue development and existing codebases could continue to be supported.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: The Swift.org website is currently under much duress.
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Apple’s Swift breaks into top 20 in dev language survey; bad news for Microsoft’s Visual Basic – July 2, 2015
Apple’s Swift: The future of enterprise app development – June 10, 2015
Apple previews iOS 9 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – June 8, 2015
Apple prepares for major enterprise push by making Macs, iPhones, iPads easier for IT to support – June 2, 2015
Apple+IBM: Enterprise apps go wearable on Apple Watch – May 24, 2015
Apple’s iOS continues to dominate the enterprise with 72 percent of all device activations – May 11, 2015
Good Timing for Swift. PHP 7 is about to be released, and it will kill a lot of scripts that use the old MySQL functions.
AWESOME NEWS! Now, it’s all about creating an ecosystem, so it can compete with Java:
1. Application Servers
2. Virtual Machine
3. IDE for other OSs
4. Others
Swift is a great, elegant language. It’s not up to the community to build great tools around it. The future is bright!
not –> now ?