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Apple will Open Source Swift Programming Language

Accepted submission by ghost at 2015-06-08 18:47:19
Software

ghost [soylentnews.org] writes:

In today's WWDC keynote, Apple announced that Swift [apple.com] (the programming language from last year's WWDC) will be open sourced sometime later this year. They specifically noted Linux support but neglected to mention *BSD or Windows. (LLVM [llvm.org], the back-end behind the Swift and clang [llvm.org], supports *BSD and Windows). Reactions from Open Source advocates were tempered, as they noted the source code has not yet been released, nor has the license been announced.

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