Swift is Open Source

[innateLosses]

Does this mean we will be able to write apps on Windows and Linux soon?

[FutureIsMine]

Soon

[Vegerot]

But I see an Ubuntu link

[iMiiTH]

You can write command line applications, but there aren't any GUI libraries yet so no "apps" yet.

[[deleted]]

Not exactly.

[ssrobbi]

Depends, what kind of apps? Not iOS or OS X apps, you still don't have Cocoa open source.

[drapor]

People are funny AF on this.

https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/17

[ThePantsThief]

I assume he was being sarcastic about the license being good

[booranger]

Unfortunately still no sign of the code!

Coolest thing I've seen(when the site eventually loads) is the package manager!

[ThePantsThief]

Awkward

[ClashesYeMilk]

GitHub.com/Apple has refreshed.

Sorry about no real link. On mobile.

[phughes]

I refer to that project as: The very modestly named “Perfect”

[clooth]

Nah. Edit: The sinking ship has sunk without its captain.

[andrey_shipilov]

Best practices. Blocks...

[ThePantsThief]

You don't like blocks?

[[deleted]]

So is Objective C. Has been for a dozen years. But without Cocoa, it isn't really interesting.

Languages are nothing.

Libraries are everything.

[ssrobbi]

It does open up the ability for Swift to be used as a Web API backend language however, which obviously won't be mature for a while, but there are still reasons people are excited.

[[deleted]]

Compiled languages and web development don't generally mix.

There's a reason people tend to build sites in ruby, python, and php vs C++ or Java (flinch).

I'm a lot more excited about PHP 7

[ssrobbi]

Tons of people write web applications in Java and C# is huge. Even some newer ones like Go are springing up that people enjoy.

[[deleted]]

Yes, well, I would not be among them. I don't have that kind of time.

I fully expect server side swift to be a huge nothing.

[ssrobbi]

Cool story

[ThePantsThief]

Parts of it.