Apple's Swift is open source now

Today we launched the open source Swift project along with the Swift.org website. We couldn't be more excited to work together in an open community to find and fix issues, add enhancements, and bring Swift to new platforms.Apple's Swift is open source now.Swift is made up of a number of different projects, providing a complete ecosystem for building great software. The Swift compiler project interprets Swift syntax, produces diagnostics to help you write correct code, and employs LLVM to generate machine instructions. The LLDB project is a first-class debugger that includes a REPL for interactive programming. And the Swift standard library project includes all the core types and basic functionality you need to write software in Swift.Today, we released two additional projects for Swift in open source: the Core Libraries project, and a new Swift Package Manager project.It's also available on Linux.