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I hope they will open Swift, like Microsoft is doing with C#.

C# is 15 years old. F# is 10 years old. It's great that Microsoft is in the process of open sourcing their code. However, it gets a little old when they're held up as some example to follow. Objective C has been open source for a long time. How about, let's hope Apple open sources Swift like they did with Objective C.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Sharp_(programming_language...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language...

How about, let's hope Apple open sources Swift like they did with Objective C

To be honest, don't hold your breath. If you research the history of Objective-C you'll realize that it was in fact the first GPL violator. It's only _because_ of the GPL that Apple was forced to open source it, not the other way around.

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