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Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source?

Date 2015-06-15 10:05 -0400
From Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source?
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On 2015-06-14 20:49, Tim McNamara wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:00:13 -0400, Alan Browne
> <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I looked at some parts of the keynote the other day and the declaration
>> that Swift would be Open Sourced (OS X and Linux) struck me as ... odd.
>>    Not that it's being made open but that the extent of that is limited
>> to OS X, iOS and Linux (Android too by extension, I suppose).
>
> Well, since OS X is POSIX already it's probably pretty easy to push it
> out for the 2% of the world that uses Linux/BSD/similar.  Windows might
> take more work.

A lot of compilers have OS switches.  Sure OS X is 'nix and that's 
easier, but as Apple develop code for Windows (iTunes for example) using 
the same source code it shouldn't be too much trouble - it's certainly a 
much larger market.

So in turn, Windows-only developers would see a growing market 
opportunity in compiling for Mac.  (Not that they'd rush immediately to 
converting code to Swift).  But the pathway to multiple platform market 
could be easier.  Of course they'd have to learn to contend with that 
many armed monster called X-code....

There may be x-platform dis-incentives for Apple such as Microsoft's 
forays into mobile ... as thin and ineffective as they are.

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What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-14 10:00 -0400
  Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-06-14 18:54 +0200
    Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-06-14 13:41 -0400
      Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-14 14:01 -0400
        Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-06-14 22:16 -0400
          Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-14 23:05 -0400
            Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-06-15 02:05 -0400
              Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-15 02:09 -0400
      Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2015-06-15 12:05 +0100
  Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2015-06-14 19:49 -0500
    Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-15 10:05 -0400
  Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2usenet2014.subsume.com> - 2015-06-15 14:15 +0000
    Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-15 16:29 -0400
      Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2usenet2014.subsume.com> - 2015-06-18 05:53 +0000
    Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-06-16 09:15 +1200
  Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-06-15 08:08 -0700
    Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-15 16:31 -0400
      Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-06-15 16:48 -0700
        Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-15 20:36 -0400
        Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-06-16 08:02 -0700
      Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-06-17 13:19 +1200
        Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-06-17 08:40 -0400
        Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-06-17 08:17 -0700
          Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-06-18 13:30 +1200
            Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-06-18 09:46 -0700
              Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-06-18 17:01 +0000
              Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-06-19 12:35 +1200
  Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-06-18 17:53 -0700
    Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-06-19 17:59 +1200
      Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-06-18 23:19 -0700
    Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2015-06-19 00:39 -0700

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