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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by cmsj on Thursday June 18, 2015 @05:05AM (#9737485)
The best stuff that we're not going to get, is everything above the STL, but I doubt anyone is expecting that Foundation/Cocoa are going to get open sourced any time soon :)
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by terhechte on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:07AM (#9737815)
Well, a good part of Foundation (Core Foundation) is already open source: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-855.17/
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by cmsj on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:09AM (#9738999)
A good point, thanks!
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by pixxa on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:39AM (#9737917)
"Best stuff" depends on who "we" are...

Here are some other users who may feel they are getting the "best stuff":

Compiler designers, programming language researchers, or even CS students the Swift core is a fount of of information to learn from, modify, experiment.

Teachers whose school could not afford Macs. They can now use Swift on cheap Linux machines, and eventually on Windows.

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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by glandium on Thursday June 18, 2015 @05:25AM (#9737546)
and all the IDE sugar from Xcode.
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by cmsj on Thursday June 18, 2015 @05:30AM (#9737555)
What kind of sugar do you mean?
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by rdsnsca on Thursday June 18, 2015 @06:23AM (#9737687)
Playgrounds most likely are one.
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by cmsj on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:10AM (#9739013)
Sure, but they are so tightly integrated with Xcode. It would be very hard to open source anything meaningful there, I suspect.
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by rdsnsca on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:49AM (#9739345)
You are probably right, its a shame though as Xcode 7 will basically let you write a book , with the new multi page playground feature.
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