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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by IsTom on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @01:58AM (#9684278)
> Anyway, 1,000,000 Swift developers will change everything.

All of these objective-C developers changed nothing for non-ios crowd. Why would swift be different?

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by weavie on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:29AM (#9684482)
Linux support.
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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by kibibu on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:42AM (#9684515)
GCC has supported Objective-C since at least version 2.0, released in 1992

(based on http://www.informatica.co.cr/linux/research/1992/0222.htm)

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by 72deluxe on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @05:18AM (#9684755)
This is very very true. I remember trying to look into Objective C years and years ago and trying to get somewhere on my Linux box but due to the lack of standard GUI libraries etc. it seemed a non-starter.
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