>Too little too late. Apple could have got my attention if they had done this from the start, but at this point I find it hard to get excited about this.
That's just like your opinion man.
If Swift is Open Source it's gonna be a huge thing, for two reasons: (a) it already attracts millions of developers because it's the suggested language to develop iOS apps in, and (b) it's a nice modern language that plays in a very hot niche (with languages like Go, Scala, Rust etc).
>When I look at swift, the only thought I have is that it is the new iOS language.
OTOH, tons of people and HN and elsewhere expressed their liking for the language and how they wished it was open sourced so they can use it elsewhere too.
That's just like your opinion man.
If Swift is Open Source it's gonna be a huge thing, for two reasons: (a) it already attracts millions of developers because it's the suggested language to develop iOS apps in, and (b) it's a nice modern language that plays in a very hot niche (with languages like Go, Scala, Rust etc).
>When I look at swift, the only thought I have is that it is the new iOS language.
OTOH, tons of people and HN and elsewhere expressed their liking for the language and how they wished it was open sourced so they can use it elsewhere too.