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Apple's Craig Federighi talks about open sourcing Swift

Apple's Senior Vice President of Software, Craig Federighi, sat down for a couple of interviews today to discuss the company's decision to open source the Swift programming language, how it will support developers, and the fate of Objective-C. Speaking with The Next Web, Federighi explained that Apple sees Swift as "the next major programming language", with a long and bright future: It's the perfect programming language for anyone who is learning to program all the way to writing systems. We want everyone to learn Swift as their primary language, and we want — when developers invest in Swift — to be able to use it everywhere from scripting to apps for mobile down to writing code in the cloud. The decision to open source Swift was also a bet for the enterprise market, says Federighi: As people become invested in Swift and train their enterprise developers in building the client-side mobile apps in Swift, the developers love it and want to take those skills and even share...<br clear='all'/>

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