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The best stuff that we're not going to get, is everything above the STL, but I doubt anyone is expecting that Foundation/Cocoa are going to get open sourced any time soon :)


Well, a good part of Foundation (Core Foundation) is already open source: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-855.17/


A good point, thanks!


"Best stuff" depends on who "we" are...

Here are some other users who may feel they are getting the "best stuff":

Compiler designers, programming language researchers, or even CS students the Swift core is a fount of of information to learn from, modify, experiment.

Teachers whose school could not afford Macs. They can now use Swift on cheap Linux machines, and eventually on Windows.

...


and all the IDE sugar from Xcode.


What kind of sugar do you mean?


Playgrounds most likely are one.


Sure, but they are so tightly integrated with Xcode. It would be very hard to open source anything meaningful there, I suspect.


You are probably right, its a shame though as Xcode 7 will basically let you write a book , with the new multi page playground feature.




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