Apple's open source Swift takes flight at last
Months after it originally promised to open-source Swift, largely seen as a successor to Objective-C, Apple has delivered. The source code is now available on GitHub under a highly liberal license -- Apache 2.0 -- that should please most developers.
At the new Swift.org, Apple provided details about the Swift compiler, tools for integrating Swift with IDEs, and discussions of goals for the next iteration of the language, such as guidelines for API design.
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