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I did not realize that we were this close to Swift 3?! This is really awesome news. I'm pretty excited to see what they do in 3.0, I'd love to have another lan

I did not realize that we were this close to Swift 3?! This is really awesome news. I'm pretty excited to see what they do in 3.0, I'd love to have another language under my belt without fooling around with NS-nonsense. That they might actually take Linux desktop seriously is really exciting to me also. I'd love to see a widely-used tool where games and popular apps that would traditionally be put out on Win/Mac are able to be used seamlessly on Linux also. On top of that, I definitely don't want to write Java, I definitely don't want to write ObjC, etc. Interestingly enough, I think this might even compete with Dart, which I suspect will end up getting Wasm support and ultimately replacing Java for android development... (Just a wild shot in the dark...) So I can't wait to see what the Swift starts brewing up in the Concurrency department. How exciting!

plorkyeran 10y ago
> I did not realize that we were this close to Swift 3?! WWDC is June 13-17, so they basically have to have something ready by then. Not so coincidentally, June 13 is "4-6 weeks later" from the May 12 date for making the release branch. Similarly, the late 2016 release for the final version of Swift 3.0 is probably actually mid September, since the version of Xcode with iOS 10 support has to ship before the next iPhone model. Hurrah for marketing-driven release schedules.