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269 mentions on Hacker News by 203 people: 58 stories, 211 comments · first 2015-12-03 · latest 2026-03-26

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  1. Official compiler? What's wrong with https://github.com/apple/swift
    comment by adamnemecek · 2017-01-27 · in Ask HN: What new development technology in the last 3 years is worth learning?
  2. …comment on the commit that adds this to the swift source states that "It relies on ObjC interop". https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/013aad13d4245a012cfb76... So maybe not the runtime, per se, but haven't looked into what it's actually…
    comment by kinofcain · 2017-01-27 · in How to build Apache modules in Swift
  3. …in anger, but that will compile in Swift 3. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650628 [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/013aad13d4245a012cfb76... [2] https://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl/d68be430e72609717f71...
    comment by kinofcain · 2017-01-26 · in How to build Apache modules in Swift
  4. …features could enable library implementations of coroutines+channels, async/await, or actors: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/proposals/Co...
    comment by favorited · 2017-01-19 · in Interview with Chris Lattner [audio]
  5. …is the Jenkins bots page: https://ci.swift.org/view/Pull%20Request/ - example of PR test reporting: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/6802
    comment by Joky · 2017-01-14 · in Testing LLVM
  6. Ted Kremenek doesn't seem to be a very active contributor of Swift. https://github.com/tkremenek https://github.com/apple/swift/graphs/contributors
    comment by dorianm · 2017-01-10 · in Update on the Swift Project Lead
  7. …uses both witness and virtual tables, something I'm realizing I didn't make very clear in the post. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/SIL.rst#vtab... has some more interesting information.
    comment by KingOfBrian · 2016-12-07 · in Method dispatch in Swift
  8. Swift is FLOSS, Apache Licensed and built and collaborated on GitHub: https://github.com/apple/swift Objective C has not had an official open source release, so far as I know. ETA: Arguing of course how close the gcc/clang implementations…
    comment by WorldMaker · 2016-11-16 · in Visual Studio for Mac Preview
  9. SoureKit, which seems to drive a lot of the Xcode Swift features, is open source: https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/tools/SourceKit
    comment by skyebook · 2016-10-25 · in Server APIs Project
  10. …[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node [3] https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/tools/SourceKit
    comment by favorited · 2016-10-19 · in Introducing Rust Language Server
  11. Do you mean https://github.com/apple/swift ?
    comment by psuter · 2016-09-26 · in IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise
  12. …also contains nearly 50 other source breaking swift-evolution proposals (full changelog here: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md ). But one of the things I like about how the language is begin developed is that…
    comment by drtse4 · 2016-09-14 · in Swift 3.0 Released
  13. https://github.com/apple/swift
    comment by DrJokepu · 2016-09-14 · in Swift Playgrounds – Learn to code on your iPad
  14. …of (C#, Swift and Kotlin all have a notion of this sort) Swift's Optional is a library type: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/cor... Though the compiler is aware of it and it does have language-level support (nil,…
    comment by masklinn · 2016-09-05 · in Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers
  15. …this issue began at least 10 months ago, according to the "Concurrency" proposal in the repository: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/proposals/Co... The news here is really an update that they're still thinking about it and…
    comment by gilgoomesh · 2016-07-30 · in Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4
  16. …fixed within a day[2]. [1]: https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/04/26/swift-long-compile-... [2]: https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/2cdd7d64e1e2add7bcfd54...
    comment by Sean1708 · 2016-07-17 · in Exponential time complexity in the Swift type checker
  17. …how debug descriptions are generated by checking conformance to a series of protocols in turn [1]: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/1e2d192b61c9003d8b8a8593... My understanding is that this is more limited in Rust, though I'm not too…
    comment by millstone · 2016-07-05 · in Ask HN: Rust or Swift for system programming?
  18. It looks like the 3.0 preview [1] was committed ~11 minutes ago. [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/releases/tag/swift-3.0-PREVIE...
    comment by _isus · 2016-06-13 · in Swift 3
  19. I don't see anything on GitHub [1] yet, but it is on apple.com. An announcement coming soon? [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/releases Edit: added GitHub link.
    comment by _isus · 2016-06-13 · in Swift 3
  20. Here’s your explanation: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ErrorHandlin... There has been discussion about statically typed errors on the evolution mailing list — some core team members said they may look into in the future…
    comment by joewillsher · 2016-05-19 · in Swift: Things I really wanted that won’t make it
  21. …types, and dispatching (dynamic) protocol methods (and other witnesses, like computed properties). https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/stdlib/public/run...
    comment by joewillsher · 2016-05-16 · in Winding down the Swift 3 release
  22. …Here's what's lining up to become Swift 4.0's concurrency support (all the concurrency models!): https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/proposals/Co... .
    comment by lobster_johnson · 2016-05-09 · in Swift Programming Language Evolution
  23. This gets you pretty close: https://github.com/apple/swift/pulls?q=is%3Apr+SE-
    comment by jayrhynas · 2016-05-08 · in Implemented proposals for Swift 3
  24. …master [0] and seems to compile in the current beta of 3.0 [1] although I haven't tested it. [0] https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/013aad13d4245a012cfb76... [1] http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl/d68be430e72609717f718...
    comment by stevetrewick · 2016-05-07 · in Implemented proposals for Swift 3
  25. …a focus in Swift 4. Here is a document describing the current state of concurrency in the language: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/proposals/Co...
    comment by stepanhruda · 2016-05-07 · in Swift 3.0 Release Process
  26. Nice commit message: https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/2cdd7d64e1e2add7bcfd54...
    comment by kristianp · 2016-04-27 · in Go Home Swift Compiler, You’re Drunk
  27. "Hello, world" on Android: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/Android.md
    comment by s_dev · 2016-04-26 · in Swift on Android?
  28. Android port has been merged into the swift code-base: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1442
    comment by GoldenMonkey · 2016-04-18 · in Getting Started with Swift on Android
  29. …development. Then why bother with xamarin at that point :) Port to android in swift code base: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1442
    comment by GoldenMonkey · 2016-04-18 · in React Native: A year in review
  30. Interesting! I found https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/tools/swift-ide-t... , which seems to be what you describe, but seems a bit tricky to use. Can you point to any OSS implementations of a Swift completer?
    comment by akanet · 2016-03-21 · in Swift 2.2 Released
  31. One surprising performance issue with Swift was identified (and fixed) by IBM recently: https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/259d57bbe7784955108caa... The problem was that the print operations was being done character-by-character and it…
    comment by alblue · 2016-03-12 · in Golang: channels are not enough
  32. …chance to Rust in half year and see if it improved. But I would suggest to look at Swift SourceKit https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/tools/SourceKit or OmniSharp http://www.omnisharp.net/ SourceKit provides really nice Swift…
    comment by SneakerXZ · 2016-03-03 · in Announcing Rust 1.7
  33. The bridging is actually in the swift libraries. Much of it in C++, not in swift, but still. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/cor... is where the magic starts (and mostly refers to where the actual work is done).…
    comment by stormbrew · 2016-02-25 · in Swift Ported to Android
  34. …unlike other popular new languages these days. Interesting document here about Swift concurrency https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/proposals/Co...
    comment by necolt · 2016-02-21 · in Swifton: Ruby on Rails-inspired web framework for Swift
  35. …it wasn't fully tested. We had a blast laughing at the stupidity of it all on Reddit [2]. [1]: https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/c2b5546512af24e52ed15c... [2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/3veu2t/swi...
    comment by Cyph0n · 2016-02-02 · in Why I'm leaving the R community
  36. …has interesting points. I'd prefer it if the faults of C++ were accompanied by evidence. [1] https://github.com/apple/swift
    comment by jasode · 2016-01-16 · in Scalable C – Writing Large-Scale Distributed C
  37. …and agree by submitting the patch that your contributions are licensed under the Swift license. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
    comment by magicalist · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  38. There have been some fantastic pull requests. Examples: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/253 https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/272
    comment by mietek · 2015-12-10 · in Swift open source – let the revolution begin
  39. …of the repo? Apple offends me and is inconsiderate because I think of Adam & Eve and the devil..." https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/165#issuecomment-1619463...
    comment by vmorgulis · 2015-12-08 · in GitHub Issue Drama [List]
  40. More directly, check out: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/cor... Which is where much of the Swift "language" is defined... in the standard library. -Chris
    comment by chrislattner · 2015-12-05 · in Remove the ++ and –- operators
  41. It's also interesting to see the graph of contributors ( https://github.com/apple/swift/graphs/contributors ). I noticed for example that Slava Pestov (The creator of the Factor programming language) has made a number of commits. Apple has…
    comment by dom96 · 2015-12-04 · in Swift is Open Source
  42. https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/afc81c1855bf711315b8e5...
    comment by elwell · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source
  43. ... and now it's https://github.com/apple/swift/commits/master?page=824 Saved for posterity: https://archive.is/n8iIl
    comment by 0942v8653 · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source
  44. I'm really impressed by the attentiveness of the Swift compiler team. Found this in the repo: https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/666646fee95bc75ca81e1d... One tweet and the bug is fixed within a couple of hours. Wow! Found that issue…
    comment by practicalswift · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source
  45. …is getting a PR merged in a high-profile project - however slight the change - as a badge of cool. https://github.com/apple/swift/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Ap...
    comment by glenntzke · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source
  46. …the latest Ubuntu Linux release are the current supported host development operating systems." ( https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/apinotes )
    comment by Someone · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source
  47. Thanks. Actually, first page is 822 for me [0] [0] https://github.com/apple/swift/commits/master?page=822
    comment by dordoka · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source
  48. …) has been part of the official Swift repo since September 2014: https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/e5ca8be1a090335d401cd1... :-) A previous HN thread about the swift-compiler-crashes project: https://news.ycombinator.co
    comment by practicalswift · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source
  49. …points out that 'Swift's first commits were in Jul 17, 2010', with a link to https://github.com/apple/swift/commits/master?page=821 .
    comment by dalke · 2015-12-03 · in Which one invented first: Kotlin or Swift?
  50. …and hope Swift to be a great language for doing many things, including implementing compilers." 1. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/www/FAQ.rst
    comment by oflannabhra · 2015-12-03 · in Swift is Open Source