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yarrel on June 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Swift will be open source later this year”

I'm unfamiliar with Swift but Objective-C is an excellent language. I much prefer it to C++.

Cocoa won't be made Free, no, but perhaps Swift could be used with GnuStep's implementation of the libraries.

It's better to not re-invent the wheel.

tosseraccount on June 8, 2015 [–]

Yeah. C++ just got too ornate. The "just bolt on objects" to C in "Objective C" ( though a complete hack ) was all that was "needed".

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