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candl on June 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Swift will be open source later this year”

Seeing as Objective-C has never took off on non Apple platforms (and is not any useful without Cocoa APIs) why would Swift be an exception?

adamors on June 8, 2015 [–]

Keynote said it will run on Linux in late 2015.

mithrilskeleton on June 8, 2015 | [–]

He's not disputing that. Objective C has been able to run on Linux for years. Essentially, nobody actually uses Objective C on Linux even though they technically could. The same will probably be true for Swift.

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