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Former TNW employeeOwen was a reporter for TNW based in Amsterdam, now a full-time freelance writer and consultant helping technology companies make their word 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.
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.
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