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Apple Makes Swift Programming Language Open Source, Available Now for Ubuntu

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Marius Nestor
Dec 4, 2015

Apple believes that if Swift is now an open source programming language, developers from all over the world will start contributing to it in order to make it more powerful and available for even more platforms. Swift was first announced by Apple back in 2014, but now it appears to be one of the fastest growing programming language in history.

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