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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by saagarjha on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:08AM (#19006329)
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.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by niutech on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:40AM (#19006996)
Such as Julia (https://julialang.org/), which is general-purpose and open-source.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by gcb0 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @02:51PM (#19008056)
> 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.

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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by jordwalke on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:34AM (#19034283)
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.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by coolreader18 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @08:45PM (#19014910)
dom96 was probably thinking of Nim[0], as they're one of the developers in the project.

[0] https://nim-lang.org

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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by nimmer on Monday January 28, 2019 @05:45AM (#19016452)
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.

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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by Midnightas on Saturday January 26, 2019 @03:28PM (#19008270)
C++.
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