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A comment on Silver: A free implementation of Swift for .NET, Java, Android, and Cocoa. Parent comment

Re:Silver: A free implementation of Swift for .NET, Java, An... by aikah on Sunday February 08, 2015 @11:37PM (#9019756)
> Silver itself might be free, but I think only if you bought the compiler already,

so it isn't free software at all.

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Re:Silver: A free implementation of Swift for .NET, Java, An... by dwarfland on Monday February 09, 2015 @04:15AM (#9020296)
We make three compilers. Oxygene, C# and Swift. The Swift compiler is/will be completely free use for everybody — no purchase required.
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