Re:“Swift will be open source later this year”
by abalone on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:48PM
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The key word here is "partly" Swift. I would not put it past Apple to use an intermediary framework that hosts a Swift runtime and calls into native Android APIs. That keeps the non-UI logic in one codebase.
Re:“Swift will be open source later this year”
by eropple on Monday June 08, 2015 @09:01PM
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That's more or less what they do with iTunes, isn't it? I recall there being an incomplete library packaged with iTunes once upon a time (with stuff like a stub implementation of Grand Central Dispatch that was neither grand nor dispatching).
Re:“Swift will be open source later this year”
by pcwalton on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @05:23PM
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iTunes (used to, at least) have a lot of Mac OS 9/Carbon stuff partially ported to Windows, in fact.
Android ships with Bionic libc, which is different from the glibc that is usually shipped in a Linux distro. There are definitely some differences between the two.
Plus the average Android app is very far from the average Linux app. If they were aiming at supporting Android, I think they would have said that instead of Linux.