Apple announces Swift 2, will be open sourced

Apple today at its WWDC event announced a big update to its new Swift development language, which brings it to version 2. A number of enhancements to the language are planned, adding Objective-C generics, a faster debug mode, C function pointer APIs and more. It’s also going to make available a migrator tool to move developers from version 1.2 to 2.0 easily, despite the fundamental changes to the language. The company also that Swift will be entirely open-source in the near future to huge rapturous applause from the developer crowd at the conference. Compilers will be available for both OS X and Linux…

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