John, On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:56 PM, John W Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-04-02 06:03:52 +0000, Gregory Casamento said: >> >> Apple is withholding Swift for one reason only and that is because >> they want to keep it Apple-only so that it makes applications less >> portable. > > > I suppose the fact that it isn't entirely stable yet has nothing to do with > it? (The current Xcode beta includes a Swift-to-Swift translator.)
I'm not sure lack of stability has anything to do with it either. Swift itself as a language is fairly stable. The compiler doesn't crash and it is a very well defined language. I very much doubt Apple will EVER release Swift as open source. Not in a million years. I hope I'm wrong. GC -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com http://ind.ie/phoenix/ _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
