Apple announces Swift 2, will be open sourced

At Apple’s WWDC event today the company announced a big update to its new Swift development language, which brings it to version 2.

A number of enhancements to the language are planned, adding Objective-C generics, a faster debug mode, C function pointer APIs and more.

It’s also going to make available a migrator tool to move developers from version 1.2 to 2.0 easily, despite the fundamental changes to the language.

The company also that Swift will be entirely open-source in the near future to applause from the developer crowd at the conference.

Compilers will be available for both OS X and Linux by the end of the year and Swift will be open sourced in the coming weeks.

Story by Owen Williams

Former TNW employee

Owen was a reporter for TNW based in Amsterdam, now a full-time freelance writer and consultant helping technology companies make their word (show all) Owen was a reporter for TNW based in Amsterdam, now a full-time freelance writer and consultant helping technology companies make their words friendlier. In his spare time he codes, writes newsletters and cycles around the city.

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