[riffraff]

also, isn't swift intimately tied to Cocoa & co?

Even if apple made great strides in open sourcing the language, compiler etc, I doubt we'll ever be able to run it on anything other than OSX/iOs.

[Jtsummers]

The swift API, not necessarily the language. No more than obj-c is at least. With the support for swift to call obj-c code, if they release an implementation it might be interesting to see where projects like Etoile can take things.