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45 pointsniutech17 comments

I wonder if Apple is going to step in a put out a cease and desist? Apple developer docs have a very specific copyright notice and since he is linking stuff to his google drive, I doubt he has obtained permission.

They can send a cease and desist, but they're not required to.

Think like Apple - why on Earth would you kill a site with resources for their new language they're pushing? You wouldn't.

At most Apple might request that the lack of affiliation of the site with Apple be made more clear. After all who knows who this guy is? Tomorrow he might decide to post nazi jokes in there, you never know.

They would and may do so if they feel that it diminishes the brand or implies association that does not exist. That and since some of this is still bound up in early release; I may be off on that; may not be distributed by others in unapproved formats?

Apple requires you to buy a developer subscription to download Swift, and their documentation frequently requires you to sign in with a developer account. Although free accounts can read the docs.

So a C&D would be consistent with their general practices.

I am the guy behind swiftlang.eu and I can pledge that there will be no nazi jokes ever. Why are you hating so much? I want to encourage devs like we all are to get into a new and promising programming language and help people share their knowledge. That's why I built a platform to make the devs community grow. I used the Swift logo, which you can see everywhere in the Internets, but hopefully it's not a crime. Please be more positive to the new bottom-up initiative, because it's always better to do something useful than to do nothing. Thanks!

I'm all for discussion about this new language, but this is just a list of links. Surely there are interesting articles to upvote instead?

swiftlang vs swift-lang (the one out there first) isn't going to confuse anyone either.

The Swift domain marketplace was one of the quickest land grabs I've seen :P

Links are only a part of the website. The most important part is the community: http://swiftlang.eu/community/

Why? This is a blatant ripoff of Apple's style, and even some of the text is ripped straight from https://developer.apple.com/swift/

The G+ link on the top right goes to a bad url: https://plus.google.com/https://plus.google.com/115939355494...

An odd choice of TLD, for presumably globally universal Swift resources.

Because swiftlang.(everything but eu) was already taken by other opportunistic domain squatters. Yes, the person who created http://swiftlang.eu/ is an opportunistic domain squatter.

Because I am based in the EU.

Great site, for devs that want some more resources check out:

http://www.LearnSwift.tips

Add to that http://learnswift.com though it appears to be just a landing page at present.

Yes, a ton of folks just bought a domain and put up a landing page. Many of them are not even close to having material prepared to teach - just trying to seize opportunity around the hype. With .tips I was attempting to actually aggregate useful resources that already exist.

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