The Swift Programming Language: what is our position towards this?

[Ivan Vučica]

>From the WWDC presentation it sounded like it'll might be generating code compatible with the Apple Objective-C runtime using LLVM.

- If the code generator becomes available (which it might not, given LLVM is BSD-licensed and Apple might be happy to keep it closed), someone needs to step in and make GNU-runtime-specific changes to it.

- If the code generator does not become available, I'd say it's unlikely that GNUstep developers would write one. (Though, who knows?)

I don't think we need to decide anything about GNUstep's support for it until a free compiler can compile Swift. And after that happens, I see no reason why not.

On Wed Jun 04 2014 at 8:13:41 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:

> Hi 'steppers,
>
> I am sure the one or another of us has heard about that new language for Cocoa/Cocoa Touch that Apple has recently introduced:
>
> https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/AboutTheLanguageReference.html
>
> What is our position towards this? Is there already an official GNUstep position? If not, what are your opinions? Does anybody know about the legal status of this language, e.g. whether we're allowed to support it or not?
>
>
> Happy stepping,
>
>         Lars
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