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Swift, the core language, has a FOSS compiler. SwiftUI is a proprietary UI toolkit library and app framework whose only relation to Swift is that it's written i
by kmeisthax 2y ago
Swift, the core language, has a FOSS compiler. SwiftUI is a proprietary UI toolkit library and app framework whose only relation to Swift is that it's written in it. It would be like calling GDK "ValaUI" or Bevy "RustEngine".
- echelon 2y agoSwift has no use beyond writing software to target Apple users. Apple isn't viewed as friendly to open source since you can't even distribute software to their platform without going through their censorship/taxation centralized review process. (And an army of people will rush to tell you this is okay.) The meme of Swift being useful to anything but Apple devs needs to die.