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

From Doc O'Leary <droleary@2usenet2014.subsume.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: What make you of Swift 2 being Open Source?
Date 2015-06-15 14:15 +0000
Organization Subsume Technologies, Inc.
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For your reference, records indicate that 
Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

> 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).

It’s just open source, so it’s not “limited” like that.  There is no
obligation to support every platform in the world just because you freely
give away your code.

> Where the benefits of Swift may be mighty I somehow doubt that the Linux 
> community will leap at it.  Except perhaps the Android community.

If they didn’t leap at open source Objective-C implementations, they
probably aren’t going to jump at Swift.  These days, the underlying
language is only a tiny factor in supporting a software platform.

> If Apple want Swift to become the development language of the next 20 
> years[1] then they should have pushed it out to Windows as well which 
> has a much larger developer community.

Windows is not the platform of the next 20 years.

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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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