Re:Go is moving to GitHub
by mmphosis on Thursday November 13, 2014 @09:13PM
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Now we just need Apple's Objective C / Swift to move to github. :) Sorry, not going to happen. :(
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Don't they have a mirror of the compiler on github?
https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang
Swift hasn't been included but objective c is there.
Re:Go is moving to GitHub
by hamstergene on Friday November 14, 2014 @12:24AM
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Naked Objective-C is not much interesting or useful without accompanying frameworks (Foundation, Cocoa, AppKit etc). Just like publishing only C# compiler without all of .Net framework would be.
Apple has stated that they're going to open source Swift in the future, who cares if they choose to host it on their own platform.
I'll believe it when I see it; I'm still waiting for the promised open-source release of the Facetime protocol.
That was canceled due to a patent lawsuit. It would have cost apple a ton of money to pay a patent troll to be able to open source FaceTime.
To clarify. Because of this lawsuit, Apple moved facetime away from being peer-to-peer to now being routed through Apple's servers. Since they have to use the centralized model, opening up the protocol for others to use would also require using Apple's servers to play nicely. So Apple would be footing the bill.
Thanks; it's just a present irritant because the Hangouts client for iPad is presently broken (no video), and Skype doesn't support video conference calls in their tablet clients, so I don't have a free cross-platform multi-way tablet-based video-chat protocol that works, and another entry in that space would be convenient.
I haven't heard that they have announced a decision. Do you have a source for that?
Let me second this question. I have heard the equivalent of, "It's too early to be talking yet about whether we will or won't open source Swift; let's talk about that later," but I didn't interpret that to mean, "We're going to open source Swift later."
Of course, maybe I missed the memo.