Apple's new programming language Swift is now open source

[J65nko]

From http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/3/98...ource-released

Apple introduced a brand new programming language last year that's meant to make coding an app for iOS or OS X easy to do, and today that language is taking a major step: it's going open source. Apple is opening up the language, Swift, through a new website, Swift.org, and through GitHub. Developers outside of Apple will now be able to look inside of Swift, contribute to its development, and bring it to new platforms.

Apple is kicking that final item off today by releasing a version of Swift that works on Linux. This is likely meant for Apple's enterprise partners, like IBM, who will now be able to create the consumer-facing portion of apps in Swift and have them talk to Linux servers that speak Swift as well.

[rons]

Originally Posted by J65nko

From http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/3/98...ource-released

I took a look at it - and it seems a little bit like Mozilla's Rust, in that it provides automatic (safe) memory management, and enhanced error handling. I don't do the apple, but Swift might be interesting if someone else does all the hard work of porting it over...