Apple Goes Open-Source
This could be big news for the company’s relationship with developers, if the details turn out right
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering, speaks at Monday’s keynote presentation.
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For the second straight year, Apple drew a huge round of applause at its Worldwide Developers Conference for news related to its nascent computer programming language. Swift was introduced at last year’s conference and enjoyed unprecedented success, mostly because people want to write apps for iPhones. On Monday the company said it would make Swift open-source by the end of the year. This could pave the way for the language to reach far beyond Apple’s walled garden.
“We think Swift is going to be the next big programming language,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering.