Whatever happened to open-source Swift?

Jens Alfke

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Oct 13, 2015, 2:18:49 PM10/13/15

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IIRC, at WWDC Apple said they’d open-source Swift by the end of September. Apparently that didn’t happen. Does anyone know what the status is, or at least have any good rumors?

—Jens

Ryan Meisters

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Oct 13, 2015, 2:23:44 PM10/13/15

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+1 — I had the same thought yesterday. developer.apple.com/swift currently says “Later this year Swift will be released as open source.”

-Ryan

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Jens Alfke <je...@mooseyard.com> wrote:

IIRC, at WWDC Apple said they’d open-source Swift by the end of September. Apparently that didn’t happen. Does anyone know what the status is, or at least have any good rumors?

—Jens

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Brent Royal-Gordon

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Oct 13, 2015, 2:42:42 PM10/13/15

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> IIRC, at WWDC Apple said they’d open-source Swift by the end of September. Apparently that didn’t happen. Does anyone know what the status is, or at least have any good rumors?

They didn’t say September, they just said “later this year”.

I believe around the time the Swift 2.1 betas started to appear, I saw an Apple person on Twitter say they’re still working towards open source, but they’re not ready yet. (I don’t know if being “ready” just means tidying up the code before they make it public, or if it means the code base has some hacks from proprietary parts of OS X that they don’t want to give away, or if it just means they need to do a long and painful audit.)

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Chris Lattner

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Oct 16, 2015, 12:58:38 PM10/16/15

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> On Oct 13, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon <br...@architechies.com> wrote:
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>> IIRC, at WWDC Apple said they’d open-source Swift by the end of September. Apparently that didn’t happen. Does anyone know what the status is, or at least have any good rumors?
>
> They didn’t say September, they just said “later this year”.

Correct. We are still on track for "by the end of 2015" as promised, more details will come out when they can.

-Chris

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