At the recent Apple developer event it was announced that a version 2 of the programming language Swift will be open sourced and ported to Linux. It will be great it means that GUI-applications developed for the Mac can be shared with the Linux world with only a reasonable amount of re-wiring. Is this too much to hope? I do not expect that Apple will serve everything on a silver platter but rather that knowledgeable people in the Linux camp will have to catch the ball and "do things" to pave the way for the rest of us.
What are the expectations?
Ondo
Apple porting Swift to Linux, what may it mean?
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Re: Apple porting Swift to Linux, what may it mean?
Only time will tell...
Re: Apple porting Swift to Linux, what may it mean?
AFAIK, they are not porting any of the GUI libraries and this move is so programmers can use one language to both write client side and server side applications. Most servers, especially in the cloud, run Linux. Being able to use the same programming language for the server side applications is to support Apple "app" developers—not Linux application developers. I may be mistaken, but I don't see this as meaning anything for Linux; it means something for Apple "app" developers only.Ondo wrote:It will be great it means that GUI-applications developed for the Mac can be shared with the Linux world with only a reasonable amount of re-wiring. Is this too much to hope?