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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?

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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.

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