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A lot of commenters here are asking whether it will be open sourced, I'm curious, specific to those who think it should be open sourced: why? I'm not really cur
by codezero 12y ago
A lot of commenters here are asking whether it will be open sourced, I'm curious, specific to those who think it should be open sourced: why? I'm not really curious about the philosophical reasons, but really the practical ones. How would Swift being open source help you as a developer? It's clearly targeted at iOS and Mac OS X, so does this mean you won't write Mac OS X or iOS apps if it's not open source, or did you hope that you could write Swift code on other platforms?
- ics 12y agoTwo big ones off the top of my head: - Porting to other platforms/community implementations (think Mono) - Developer input: being able to submit bugs, influence or even just *watch* the trajectory of the language, get a deeper understanding of how various components are really implemented
- roryokane 12y agoA reason in addition to ics’s two reasons: If Swift is open-sourced, it will be more popular, because it might be used by developers on other platforms too. Those extra developers would write more libraries and documentation that would improve the ecosystem of the language.