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Igglyboo on Oct 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Phoenix, Swift set free

>Swift only has value with the Mac OS X and iOS ecosystems

Which is why they are making an open source version that will have value in all ecosystems.

pjmlp on Oct 22, 2014 [–]

For those looking for an ML language outside the Apple ecosystem there is OCaml, Haskell, F#, ATS, Rust, Idris, Pure Script, Elm, ...

Swift without Cocoa, UIkit, GCD, Playground, IDE support..., doesn't offer anything better than those MLs.

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