Apple decided to make public the achievements of the programming language Swift. To the public were given the source of the compiler, standard and basic library functions, the debugger, and the package manager Swift Package Manager. Besides.
It is important to note that YAP supports Linux, in addition to natively supports OS X.
So far, the project leader and Core team are employees of the company, but in the future it is planned that these positions may come people who are not associated with Apple.
The company notes that the programming language Swift - this is a step forward compared to the previously used Objective-C. Swift, in fact, is the successor to Objective-C and provides an object model that is compatible with its predecessor.
Recall that the PL was presented to the June conference WWDC 2014. It launched simultaneously with the operating system iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. It is possible that in a few years, thanks to the support of Linux, Swift will write interfaces for Linux-based systems, as currently there is no uniform standard. Related Products :
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