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Google reportedly considering possibility of Swift as programming language for Android

Greg Barbosa Apr 8 2016 - 12:47 pm PT

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Apple’s recently open-sourced programming language, Swift, may be seeing itself get adopted into Google’s Android platform in the future. Sources have told The Next Web that Google is “considering making Swift a ‘first class’ language for Android”.

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IBM brings Swift to the cloud, releases web framework Kitura written in Apple’s programming language

Greg Barbosa Feb 22 2016 - 9:32 am PT

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Only months after Apple officially open-sourced Swift, IBM today is announcing that they are bringing Apple’s Swift programming language to the cloud. This makes IBM the first cloud provider enabling Swift application development server-side. IBM has also introduced a preview to a Swift runtime and a Swift Package Catalog to help with code sharing, and distribution.

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