Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't

snydeq writes: Faster innovation, better security, new markets — the case for opening Swift might be more compelling than Apple will admit, writes Peter Wayner. "In recent years, creators of programming languages have gone out of their way to get their code running on as many different computers as possible. This has meant open-sourcing their tools and doing everything they could to evangelize their work. Apple has never followed the same path as everyone else. The best course may be to open up Swift to everyone, but that doesn't mean Apple will. Nor should we assume that giving us something for free is in Apple's or (gasp) our best interests. The question of open-sourcing a language like Swift is trickier than it looks."

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Apple not in my best interests either

[Anonymous Coward]

> Nor should we assume that giving us something for free is in Apple's or (gasp) our best interests.

I don't know about yours, but Apple isn't in (gasp) my best interests either. All about user control.

Too much Blah in the world.

[taylorius]

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The world has too many commentators. Go and do something useful. Stop talking about what other people are doing, and go and do something amazing yourself.