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by monocularvision
1281 days ago
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While I feel like Swift missed the opportunity to become a popular language outside of Apple platforms, this is still fantastic news. Having the source code available for Foundation could make debugging things much easier in addition to being able to fix issues! There really is nothing more frustrating when working with Apple platforms over not being able to ever fix things. I get jealous of my Android colleagues in this area. |
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Swift is an interesting language. I more or less like it and use it about 10% of the time when hacking on personal projects, but I have only written one app in Swift (and SwiftUI.)
One interesting thing is how much Apple has improved the Playgrounds Swift IDE that runs on iPadOS and macOS. The iPad version now has functionality of publishing directly to the Apple Store. You say, probably correctly, that Swift missed the chance to be a generally popular language. Perhaps Playgrounds will increase interest?