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I mean the inclusion of Python, seems so random to me

It's supposed to be a "mainstream" scripting language. Also, it's an easy way for them to get favorable numbers for their presentation.

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On the Ars liveblog, I didn't see any mention of Swift support for other platforms. Are we going to see Swift on Linux and Windows as well?

I didn't either, but if not, my bet is that outside programmers will make an open source version (like Mono to C#).

According to one Apple developer who works on the project it will _likely_ be open sourced, though the developer says they don't know if that's true or not:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=363...

Could you post the message (or thread) somewhere? I think that post is paywalled.

Sure, sorry - I'm not sure which SA threads are free and which require payment. This is the relevant bit:

"Is this under NDA?

No.

Is this open source?

Not yet. It probably will be, but I can't make promises. Right now, our repository still has a lot of history that we don't want to make public, and we have a lot of work to do before we release."

Thanks.

Swift on the Server with some modern CSP flavored concurrency mechanisms would Rock! Then combine that with a Swift-like language that compiles to Javascript, and that language could take over the web.

Yes. But what has that got to do with writing native apps?

It has everything to do with modern languages with powerful features.

Nothing. Don't look too far into it.

They probably just used python as an example of something most people would know. Its probably the most known scripting language out there so why not use it.

Besides ALL benchmarks are pointless, even when you have the source of the benchmarks and know what they ran on software/hardware wise.

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