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		chc on Oct 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Phoenix, Swift set free How many years have to go by without Apple even talking about open-sourcing Swift before you consider it unlikely?

mikeash on Oct 21, 2014 [–]

If there's no news by this time next year I'll probably start to get fearful that they might keep it closed. But it's way too early right now. We're only a month or so after the first public release. As I recall, it took several months for ARM64 to show up, and that was a lot more finished than Swift currently is.

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