Apple makes proprietary products. Your operating system literally runs only on computers that they manufacture. It is clear that this policy has its pros and cons. On the one hand, they can maintain a much tighter control quality because they do everything, hardware and software. Moreover, it is clear that when the technology is closed its scope is much smaller. However, Apple has chosen well and it seems that to some extent it worked. Does not have the volume of users who have eg Windows, but yet it is one of the companies with the highest profits in the world of computing.
Therefore, a little surprised that the apple company has decided to put their language development, Swift, open source. According to the website of Swift, this programming language has grown very quickly and has been widely accepted. Swift says the site, makes it easy to write software that is incredibly fast and safe by the design. Now that Swift and decided to open it on open source, developers are expected to do a better language for general purpose than it already is. Swift, is sought to be used on different platforms, including Windows. However, at present the system only runs on Linux, iOS and Mac OS X. However, Apple expects someone to get to work on porting to the Windows platform Swift and no doubt that this happens very soon.
The Swift language, on the website of the same, have the compiler, libraries and a debugger, and all are open source. Swift was licensed under the Apache 2.0, which means that developers can use even in commercial products. Developers can find a lot of technical support, from documentation and links to source code, which are hosted on GitHub. Apple has also put in place plans to Swift Swift 3, including its guide APIs. The problems are also discussed in the same website. Ls language contributions should be made through GitHub and the company emphasizes that the Swift site is “the house of the product.”
Brandon Keepers head GitHub, said: “With the arrival of source code on GitHub Swift, Apple is giving us a modern programming language to the world in relation to larger community developers. It is therefore welcome Swift and I can not wait for what the community GitHub built with the same “.
It seems clear that there will be news to developers level of developments Swift now made his move on the world open source, which in fact, is not the first time Apple enters this world. In previous experiences, for example, with your library parallel development, he has done nothing wrong
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