Apples programmeringsspråk Swift blir nu Open Source, ett projekt som utvecklas enligt konceptet öppen källkod.
Swift laserades mycket överraskande för ungefär ett år sedan. Mycket lite var känt utanför högkvarteret i Cupertino och ingen gissade att Apples skulle presentera sitt eget språk. Nu infriar Apple sitt löfte och licensierar Swift som blir Open Source.
Apple says it will run the new open source project from a website called Swift.org, while sharing the source code through the popular code repository GitHub, and it has seeded the project with a wide range of tools. Most notably, it has open sourced Swift compilers that will run on Linux as well as Mac OS X. These let engineers transform raw Swift code into full-fledged applications. Apple has also shared Swift package managers that can format these apps so they will run on devices driven by Linux, Mac OS X (used on desktops and laptops), iOS (mobile), watchOS (Apple Watch), and tvOS (Apple TV).
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