Friday, December 4, 2015

Cloud and open development: Apple’s software chief about open source … – Mac & i



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One reason for the open source lapping the programming language is the use of cloud applications, said Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi in an interview -. IBM had shown very interested

Find the Swift-development fully “outdoors” instead. This has emphasized after the open source programming language again laying the young Apple’s software development manager Craig Federighi. Everyone can see the day takes place from day development of the Group in Github directory, explained the head of development of iOS and OS X compared to TNW . Apple is also “open to patches of each”, you consider Swift as one of the next major programming languages ​​for the “coming decades”.



For the cloud

The interest to use Swift for cloud applications, Apple has driven to the relatively fast open source lapping said Federighi. The partners IBM have for example shown great interest in order to bring enterprise software to mobile platforms as well as both in the cloud. There were efforts to adapt Swift for data centers, the Group could imagine a whole range of specialized toolkits about Swift for “Big Data” or machine learning. As open-source project, the programming language also let get lighter on the curriculum of universities.



Swift for Windows as a community project

Linux and the in-house operating systems are a ” great foundation “for Swift added the Software-chief added in an interview with Ars Technica , Windows support was Apple itself is not scheduled. However, it should “foreseeable” that the Community – possibly under the leadership of Microsoft -. Takes over this task

Objective-C Forever

At the same time Federighi Apple reiterated adherence to Objective-C: The programming is “for eternity”, no one had to worry about their future. Apple will support Objective-C continues, finally have the Mac maker also develop a large investment in “many, many millions of lines of Objective-C” and as needed. New developers to recommend for future development but Swift. (LBE)

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