Re:Visual Studio for Mac Preview
by rhodysurf on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:05PM
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Objective C is just as open as Swift is I think
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Re:Visual Studio for Mac Preview
by WorldMaker on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:01PM
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Swift is FLOSS, Apache Licensed and built and collaborated on GitHub: https://github.com/apple/swift
Objective C has not had an official open source release, so far as I know.
ETA: Arguing of course how close the gcc/clang implementations of Objective C may or may not be to the Xcode compilers, of course.
Xcode uses Clang/LLVM to compile Objective-C (and used gcc before adopting LLVM). To my knowledge there's nothing closed source involved in the compiler. I had Clang/LLVM compiling Objective-C on Linux a long time ago. Visual Studio for Windows has been able to compile Objective-C for about a year (see https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/ios).