“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by roneesh on Monday June 08, 2015 @02:33PM (#9681166)

I never considered this! But it's fun to think about!

I'm a bit naive about the environments languages have to run in... but if we have a web app framework in Swift, Servers in swift (as mentioned in comments above), and iOS in swift, doesn't that make Swift a JS replacement too?

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by opaque_salmon on Monday June 08, 2015 @04:33PM (#9682181)

JavaScript's domain is mostly client side web browser scripting, and no language is close to throwing it off its throne. So no, JavaScript will always have its place.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by Lio on Monday June 08, 2015 @08:05PM (#9683299)

ASM.js though makes languages with manual memory management relevant to web front-end work.

Hopefully, Swift might be a good candidate for fast browser code.

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