“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by aaggarwal on Monday June 08, 2015 @03:18PM (#9681544)

I agree, with the type of growth Swift has shown in the past, there is going to be a big demand for Swift developers now. Swift could possibly rule the mobile/web. I have already added it on my #TODO list :)

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by untog on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:19PM (#9683123)

I doubt Swift will rule the web. Javascript has yet to be dethroned by any other language coming before it, after all.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by ignorabilis on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @09:32AM (#9685778)

If you ask me, no chance to rule the web. JavaScript has been the standard for a very long time now. Because JS is not a flawless language dozens of js precompilers have been created till now, so the competition is pretty rough. Swift tries to be functional and provides you a way to use immutable data structures, but it is neither functional nor opinionated enough to force immutablity. With that said I personally don't think that it brings something new to the already existing web ecosystem. It sure is a nicer alternative to obj-c though.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by aaggarwal on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @02:33PM (#9687717)

When I was referring to web, I mainly considered the web-backend on web-servers. JavaScript is the standard for frontend, no doubt.

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