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Re:Swift is Open Source by lobster_johnson on Thursday December 03, 2015 @12:58PM (#10671223)
Linux support for ObjC is great on the compiler side (GCC supports the full language), but none of the core libraries are available. You can get some stuff (NSString, NSDictionary and so on) through GNUstep, but last I checked it was an uphill battle to be truly productive with ObjC on Linux.
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Re:Swift is Open Source by plorkyeran on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:41PM (#10671617)
GCC doesn't support the full language anymore, since the stuff that Apple added after finishing the migration to Clang hasn't been ported to GCC (e.g. generics and array/dictionary literals) and there doesn't appear to be anyone interested in doing so.
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Re:Swift is Open Source by pjmlp on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:18PM (#10671428)
It has hardly changed since the days I used AfterStep and WindowMaker (early 2000).
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