Re: GNUstep's lack of progress and Apple's holding back Swift language

[James Carthew]

Frankly I find Swift to be both boring and useless. I'd much rather see things like quartzcore and webkit be completely ported to GNUstep than waste time on yet another programming language. The more Cocoa/NextStep API that gets ported, the more apps/uses for GNUstep will appear. I see Swift as a really bad use of developer resources. It hasn't had enough uptake to matter/influence the major APIs.

On 3 April 2015 at 05:54, Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:

John,

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:56 PM, John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2015-04-02 06:03:52 +0000, Gregory Casamento said:
>>
>> Apple is withholding Swift for one reason only and that is because
>> they want to keep it Apple-only so that it makes applications less
>> portable.
>
>
> I suppose the fact that it isn't entirely stable yet has nothing to do with
> it? (The current Xcode beta includes a Swift-to-Swift translator.)

I'm not sure lack of stability has anything to do with it either.
Swift itself as a language is fairly stable.  The compiler doesn't
crash and it is a very well defined language.

I very much doubt Apple will EVER release Swift as open source.  Not
in a million years.   I hope I'm wrong.

GC
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Gregory Casamento
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