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[Discuss] swift?



On 6/10/2015 3:26 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> This is not that.
>
> They even mentioned it running on Linux IIRC.

Apple developed Swift with a specific purpose in mind: to simplify 
cross-platform development of Cocoa (OS X) and Cocoa Touch (iOS) 
applications. Open sourcing the language, making a working Linux target, 
calling it a general purpose language, that's all marketing.

-- 
Rich P.



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