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Apple is open sourcing Swift Build

(www.swift.org)
612 points dayanruben | 1 comments | 01 Feb 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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uhura ◴[01 Feb 25 19:07 UTC] No.42901158[source]▶
I believe that this long game of Swift being "good for everything" but "better for Apple platforms" will be detrimental to the language. This does not help the language nor seems to bring more people to the ecosystem.

Competitors seems to have a combination of: - Being more open-source - Have more contributors - Have a narrower scope

Maybe they should consider open sourcing all the tooling (like Xcode) otherwise the gap will only grow over time when compared to other languages.

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kelnos ◴[01 Feb 25 21:02 UTC] No.42902281[source]▶
This feels similar to C# and Microsoft's other CLR/.NET languages. Sure, they've broken away a bit and aren't exclusively used to run things on MS platforms, but still.

And Swift is even more tied to Apple, at least to my inexperienced eye. I'm not really an Apple person (Linux, Android), even though I once really enjoyed their hardware... Swift is so far down on my list of languages to look at that I probably will never get to it.

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codr7 ◴[01 Feb 25 21:15 UTC] No.42902429[source]▶
Sorry to hear that, I wouldn't bet anything on Apple but the core language contains a lot of good ideas imho.
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1. moooo99 ◴[01 Feb 25 21:33 UTC] No.42902592{3}[source]▶
I’ve spent some time looking into swift as well and was quite pleased with the overall language, it really contained some really good ideas. This makes it a bit of a shame that it is tied so closely to Apple