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Comment by jan_m_savage

9 hours ago

sooner or later this was gonna happen. Swift is like Haskell, but nicer and more programmer-friendly.

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isodev  3 hours ago

I wouldn’t fly so close to Apple if I have the choice. Apple could pivot at any moment - “New versions of Swift start at $99,99” /s

  • simonleeb  33 minutes ago

    ElementaryUI author here (so biased):

    I agree that is a real risk, but imho past behavior suggests that "Apple" Apple and open-source Apple both can exist and it's likely going to be just fine.

    On the plus side: Apple is paying many many real people to progress the language and tooling mostly in the open with solid community work.

  • earthnail  1 hour ago

    New versions of Swift are truly cross-platform. We support iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, HomeOS, VisionOS, WatchOS as well as BodyOS, BrainOS and iThinkOS.

    To help developers focus on the future, Swift 9 drops support for deprecated platforms such as Linux, Windows and the web.

    /s

    I'm actually a Swift developer; it's a great language, but I'm also married to the Apple ecosystem and wouldn't choose it outside of it.