“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by chc on Monday June 08, 2015 @04:48PM (#9682273)

I sincerely do not think "They pulled it off" versus "It looks like they will do this sometime in the next six months" is nitpicking somebody's choice of words. The difference between the two is not a minor nuance, it's a large practical difference, and I don't think people would necessarily understand the latter meaning from the former.

When I first saw this thread, I certainly thought Apple had actually open-sourced Swift, as both the headline and the comment I was replying to said so. Then I looked at the linked page and saw it had not happened, so I corrected this materially important piece of information.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by jokr004 on Monday June 08, 2015 @05:12PM (#9682459)

The headline and the direct quote from apples website say "Swift will be open source later this year".. I don't think anyone in this thread is trying to say anything to the contrary. Certainly the decision to open source swift has been "pulled off", perhaps that's what LesZedCB was referring to.. who knows? Who bloody cares? It's very much not important.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by chc on Monday June 08, 2015 @05:14PM (#9682478)

As I already said, that was not the title when I posted my comment. At the time it was something very much like "Swift is now open-source!" Because of worthless nit-picks like mine, the title was later changed to be accurate.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by jokr004 on Monday June 08, 2015 @05:23PM (#9682548)

Yeesh, ok I didn't realize the title was changed

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