“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by nemothekid on Monday June 08, 2015 @04:33PM (#9682176)

OTOH There are 70k Go repos on GitHub vs 31k for Swift (vs ~5k for Rust)

- https://github.com/search?l=go&q=stars%3A%3E-1&ref=searchres...

- https://github.com/search?l=swift&q=stars%3A%3E-1&ref=search...

- https://github.com/search?l=rust&q=stars%3A%3E-1&ref=searchr...

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by kibwen on Monday June 08, 2015 @06:06PM (#9682779)

The numbers of results there vary wildly upon refreshing the page repeatedly. I'm getting ranges of 39k-79k for Go, 12k-42k for Swift, and 3k-9k for Rust. Also, in the absence of knowledge of what precisely is being measured (e.g. does it include forks?), we should probably only interpret these numbers as order-of-magnitude comparisons.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by melling on Monday June 08, 2015 @04:38PM (#9682207)

Swift repos will pass Go within 12 months. I think most iOS developers were holding off on Swift. Heck, Xcode and Swift, etc only became usable earlier this year.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by ikawe on Monday June 08, 2015 @08:01PM (#9683281)

Most people aren't writing open source iOS apps.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by cerberusss on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:50AM (#9684539)

No but there are a lot of components.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by MCRed on Monday June 08, 2015 @11:04PM (#9683857)

I think that doesn't support your hypothesis--- 31k in one year compared to 70k in 6 years implies a lot more momentum for swift than go.

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