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Re:Swift Ported to Android by LeoNatan25 on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:07PM (#11176324)
Not true. Both Foundation and Core Foundation libraries will be eventually ported and open sourced.
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Re:Swift Ported to Android by bluejekyll on Thursday February 25, 2016 @03:51PM (#11177699)
This feels a little like wishful thinking. Remember YellowBox back when Apple originally bought NeXT?

YellowBox was going to be a cross-platform updated version of the OpenStep APIs. While I remember some alphas of it, it basically got nixed.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/4B800F78-0F7...

As much as I enjoy using Apple products, their history says that they would not directly support something like this.

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Re:Swift Ported to Android by LeoNatan25 on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:00PM (#11177752)
We are long long days since that.

https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch

Works is well under way.

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Re:Swift Ported to Android by bluejekyll on Thursday February 25, 2016 @07:43PM (#11179086)
Omg, I had no idea. Awesome!
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