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Apple today announced that its Swift programming language is now officially open source.

As an open source language, the broad community of talented developers — from app developers to educational institutions to enterprises — can contribute to new Swift features and optimizations and help bring Swift to new computing platforms. Introduced in 2014, Swift is the fastest growing programming language in history and combines the performance and efficiency of compiled languages with the simplicity and interactivity of popular scripting languages. Apple today also launched the Swift.org website with detailed information about Swift open source, including technical documentation, community resources and links to download the Swift source code.

Hair Force One“By making Swift open source the entire developer community can contribute to the programming language and help bring it to even more platforms,” said Craig “Hair Force One” Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, in a statement. “Swift’s power and ease of use will inspire a new generation to get into coding, and with today’s announcement they’ll be able to take their ideas anywhere, from mobile devices to the cloud.”

Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language that gives developers the freedom and capabilities they need to create the next generation of cutting-edge software. Swift is easy to learn and use, even if you’ve never coded before, and it’s the first systems programming language that is as expressive and enjoyable as a scripting language. Designed for safety, Swift also eliminates entire categories of common programming errors.

The Swift open source code is available via GitHub and includes support for all Apple software platforms — iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS — as well as for Linux. Components available include the Swift compiler, debugger, standard library, foundation libraries, package manager and REPL. Swift is licensed under the popular Apache 2.0 open source license with a runtime library exception, enabling users to easily incorporate Swift into their own software and port the language to new platforms.

Source: Apple Inc.

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As someone with more than a passing interest in software development... It looks interesting but... Is it just a re-spin of C, Objective-C, C#, C++, Java, even csh (all built on mostly C-ish syntax)??? With all those languages out there with so much overlap... I'm left wondering what the allure is, what would be the compelling reason for me to learn yet another programming language? Maybe, if I were an iOS developer??? I just don't see this moving outside that realm. My next language, one that I believe will be far more useful to me, that I'm currently learning is OpenCL.