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christopher walsh
7,272 PointsSwift as open sourced
Apple made Swift an open sourced language. But I don't really understand what that means. outside of Xcode and making an app, how can you make the language do anything for you, outside the apple ecosystem?
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Evan Demaris
64,262 PointsSwift was open source as of 12/03/15; this means that developers can see how Swift is actually functioning and easily make changes or enhancements, and also makes it much easier to use Swift on different devices (so it can run natively instead of needing to be run through an emulator).
Because you can essentially edit Swift to your liking, it can be edited to be more of a general purpose programming language instead of being a programming language exclusively for iOS based devices.
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 PointsMy understanding is it isn't open source yet, but it will be. There's an article about it here:
Chris Shaw
26,676 PointsIt already is open-source, you can see the source code on GitHub.
Justin Reed
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 33,918 PointsJustin Reed
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 33,918 Pointsinterested to see the answers