Swift, as promised in the last WWDC to much applause and cheering, is now Open Source. swift.org
The potentially interesting point as far as accessibility is concerned is that the Swift foundation classes were re-implemented in a portable manner, without the use of the Objective-C runtime. That means we won’t be learning the mechanics of the runtime from the Swift code. The Objective-C runtime is, itself, open-source, but is of no use outside OS X and iOS. That would seem to mean that there will probably continue to be less interest in targeting the objective-C runtime and therefore accessibility protocols of iOS and OS X from outside of Cocoa and therefore iOS and OS X development. This is a shame, but I suppose the broader portability is an overall plus. Of course, each platform already provides its own accessibility APIs at the higher levels anyway, so this is purely academic and speculative, but when we were discussing this before, Swift was brought up as a possible growth point. It doesn’t look like it will be now. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
