Re:Apple is patenting Swift features
by dom96 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @07:26AM
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And this is one very real reason to avoid languages owned by huge companies like Google's Go and Apple's Swift. They can and will do evil things, instead of supporting them please consider supporting smaller languages which are often just as good or better as Swift/Go.
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Such as? Many of the newer languages I’m seeing, notably Swift and Go, but also TypeScript, ReasonML, and Rust have their development backed by one corporation.
Such as Julia (https://julialang.org/), which is general-purpose and open-source.
> julialang.org
> no mention of "license"
> "Julia is a NumFocus project"
it is a non-profit corporation, but still a corporation. Whose life depend on donations from the owners of the other languages you compared julia against.
Re:Apple is patenting Swift features
by jordwalke on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:34AM
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This is definitely not true of ReasonML. ReasonML is just one part of a larger ecosystem that is pushed forward by a combination of academia and industry, and ReasonML is is very community focused/driven.
Re:Apple is patenting Swift features
by coolreader18 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @08:45PM
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dom96 was probably thinking of Nim[0], as they're one of the developers in the project.
Yes, as well as libraries, tools, applications that are not in the hands of one or few companies only.
Plenty of technologies get hyped up by companies and later on bent out of shape or dropped.
Re:Apple is patenting Swift features
by Midnightas on Saturday January 26, 2019 @03:28PM
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C++.