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robgibbons
on June 8, 2015
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“Swift will be open source later this year”
It's potentially great news. It means I potentially don't need to own a Macbook Pro and use XCode just to build apps for iOS. Fuck that shit.
rhodysurf
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Not necessarily. Objective C is open and available on other platforms but you still need Apple Hardware to compile for iOS. I think the biggest issue here is the Cocoa libraries and the signature process.
s73v3r
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Ummm, you still need a Mac to do so. Just like you need Windows to make Windows apps.
jbk
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You don't need Windows to make Windows apps. MingW and Wine work very fine on Linux.
s73v3r
on June 9, 2015
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I wouldn't be willing to trust that as a substitute for a real machine running the target OS.
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