Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:33:06 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: mayuresh@kathe.in, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swift under freebsd? Message-ID: <20150611093306.GA44454@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20150609113827.GA80013@ozzmosis.com> References: <0e0e0498667962e412d607e2f27274d0@kathe.in> <20150609113827.GA80013@ozzmosis.com>
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On Tue 2015-06-09 21:38:27 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (mail@ozzmosis.com) wrote: > > hi, in case someone missed it, there's been an announcement that apple's > > swift will be open sourced soon. > > they are going pretty much full-out, even the libraries are going to get > > open sourced along with the compiler. > > in that case, would freebsd import support for swift within the base > > system in the near future? > > I think it would only end up in the FreeBSD base system if a > particular program in base required it. However the general trend over > the years has been to remove dependencies from base (Perl, Ruby) > rather than add more. > > ObjC support is in base more by coincidence, because clang is required > to build the base system in FreeBSD 10.0 and newer, and clang includes > ObjC support. clang will never build Swift apps, though. Actually on further investigation, while Clang might support the ObjC syntax, none of the ObjC libraries are available in FreeBSD base.
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