“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by fixermark on Monday June 08, 2015 @02:36PM (#9681201)

Swift's popularity has undergone a meteoric rise for a young language according to TIOBE [http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....]

But that's not surprising given its ecosystem; as others have mentioned, language success has less to do about its theoretical benefits and more to do about what environments it allows the developer access to. Javascript is the case-in-point; I think few people would argue it is a well-designed language, but if you want to do web development, you're going to need at least a basic understanding of it, so it maintains brutal popularity.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by datashovel on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @04:28AM (#9684627)

The shocking thing I think isn't how fast Swift has grown, but how fast Objective-C has fallen. The stats from that site don't appear to show that Swift has made up for that.

The overall combination of Swift and Objective-C in those numbers make me believe Apple's decision to make Swift open source is less about goodwill, and more about stopping the bleeding.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by beefsack on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @12:20AM (#9684056)

Given the context it's used in, this is hardly surprising.

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