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Re:Introducing Phoenix, Swift set free by Igglyboo on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:37PM (#8489355)
>Swift only has value with the Mac OS X and iOS ecosystems

Which is why they are making an open source version that will have value in all ecosystems.

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Re:Introducing Phoenix, Swift set free by pjmlp on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @01:35AM (#8491556)
For those looking for an ML language outside the Apple ecosystem there is OCaml, Haskell, F#, ATS, Rust, Idris, Pure Script, Elm, ...

Swift without Cocoa, UIkit, GCD, Playground, IDE support..., doesn't offer anything better than those MLs.

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