[codecraft] Apple open-sourced swift

[Michael Bar-Sinai]

https://github.com/apple/swift?utm_source=SitePoint&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Versioning <https://github.com/apple/swift?utm_source=SitePoint&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Versioning>

I assume that's a bigge, as swift is another post-functional language - merges functional programming with object oriented*, where both are "first class" citizens. It also adds goodies like pattern matching. Apple also claims it's a "systems language".

So, very similar to Scala, but no need for the JVM - it compiles to LLVM code. It might break new grounds where Scala couldn't, because of the anti-JVM atmosphere that's quite common outside of the Java universe.

It will also be interesting to see how it fares vs. Google's Go.

-- Michael
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