“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by mattdw on Monday June 08, 2015 @05:37PM (#9682631)

In my experience, in the wide world of programming languages Rust and Swift are really not very far apart. Swift's designers even cited Rust as an influence.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by steveklabnik on Monday June 08, 2015 @08:29PM (#9683387)

> Swift's designers even cited Rust as an influence.

Specifically, http://nondot.org/sabre/

     > Of course, it also greatly benefited from the
     > experiences hard-won by many other languages in the
     > field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell,
     > Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by shaneofalltrad on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @12:42AM (#9684123)

...you can say they looked at <add your favourite language here> as an influence.

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