It is a huge step for Swift. Finally it is no longer the Apple walled garden and it will become a popular universal platform like Python or JavaScript, for sure

It is a huge step for Swift. Finally it is no longer the Apple walled garden and it will become a popular universal platform like Python or JavaScript, for sure. If you want to learn Swift, it is high time. Start with the huge collection of 300+ video tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSwiftLanguage https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSwiftLanguage Side note: Julia is great. Very easy to learn, blazing fast, powerful, general-purpose, works everywhere and even integrates well with C/Python/Fortran. As for the IDE, there is Juno based on LightTable, there is Sublime-Julia for Sublime Text, as well as Julia support for Atom.