See my postings regarding this almost a year ago. :) GNUstep should absolutely support swift.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Maxthon Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > I would suggest that we should embrace ourselves for the impact of Apple open > sourcing Swift, and adapt the GNUstep environment to take advantage of, or > serve as a host of, the Swift 2.0 environment. > > There are several possibilities in Apple open sourcing Swift, given its tight > ties to Cocoa: > > 1) The Swift for Linux uses a different library and does not support > Objective-C interoperability at all. This would be a bummer and we cannot > cooperate with it. > 2) Apple would submit a big patch set to one of the open source Cocoa > reimplementation (including GNUstep) to bring it up to speed with Apple, and > build Swift for Linux on top of that. If we are the receiving end of the > patch set it would be a tremendous opportunity for us. > 3) Apple open source their own Cocoa implementation to support Swift for > Linux. We can then take advantage of that and start adapt GNUstep as a patch > or additions to Cocoa for Linux. > > Max > >> On Nov 17, 2015, at 06:36, Svetlana A. Tkachenko <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Interesting idea, I hope I got it right: >> Would using linux-libre for "the" GNUstep (or NeXtStep) OS be >> appropriate? >> Could base it on one of these: >> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html >> >> -- >> Svetlana A. Tkachenko >> Member of the Free Software Foundation >> www.fsf.org www.gnu.org www.freenode.net >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > -- 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
