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Apple Open-Sources Swift and Releases Linux Port

posted by martyb on Friday December 04 2015, @06:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the Is-that-you-Jonathan? dept.

Swift Is Open Source

ghost writes:

Swift, Apple's hot new programming language, is now open source. It is available (or will be once the web site isn't so overwhelmed!) for Mac and Linux under an Apache 2.0 license.

"Swift is now open source! We are excited by this new chapter in the story of Swift. After Apple unveiled the Swift programming language, it quickly became one of the fastest growing languages in history. Swift makes it easy to write software that is incredibly fast and safe by design. Now that Swift is open source, you can help make the best general purpose programming language available everywhere. "

Apple Open-Sources Swift and Releases Linux port, as Promised

theluggage writes:

Apple's Swift programming language may eventually replace the respected but arcane Objective C as the native language for OS X and iOS development, but if you don't have a Mac you might be forgiven for not having taken an interest so far.

However, as MacRumors now reports, Apple have now delivered on their promise to open-source Swift and release a Linux port. It doesn't sound as if the Linux port is quite ready for production use just yet, but the source is out there. Does this mean that Swift is now a contender for general purpose programming?

(Note: at the time of writing, the servers at Swift.org are failing to live up to their name.)

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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday December 05 2015, @02:54PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Saturday December 05 2015, @02:54PM (#272172) Homepage

    Right, but you don't have the source for OSX, so the exercise is pointless.

    FOSS must exist throughout the entire chain, or you still don't have freedom.

    In fact, I will email RMS right now and confirm his position on this matter.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by choose another one on Saturday December 05 2015, @09:04PM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 05 2015, @09:04PM (#272270)

    rms (it's lower case btw, always has been) himself spent many years working on free software to run on proprietary OSs, I think he would be surprised to hear that it was pointless or that the users of the software didn't have freedom as a result.

  • (Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Saturday December 05 2015, @11:05PM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Saturday December 05 2015, @11:05PM (#272296)

    What's the source code to OSX got to do with it? Swift is a language. It's a language that runs on OSX or Linux, or any other platform someone wants to port it to.

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