DADaNmarner·Dec 21, 2015Submission
3 points · Open discussionswiftlang
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Swift2015–2026
swiftlang / swift
swift
The Swift Programming Language
203Distinct people
269Mentions
3Explicit recommenders
70.6KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
The Swift Programming Language
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
What people are saying
As an iOS engineer, I'm a bit biased, but I'd still say it's currently not practical to learn it if you're not doing Apple development. That said, I love the language, and it's…
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Also in these discussions
- apple/foundationdb · linked in 3 of the same discussions
- jetbrains/kotlin · linked in 2 of the same discussions
- swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:28:18 AM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by year269 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-12-03 15:21:41 UTC to 2026-03-26 19:15:06 UTC.
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Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 35 | 11 | 24 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 41 | 10 | 31 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 40 | 7 | 33 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 2 | 10 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 25 | 8 | 17 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 27 | 6 | 21 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 21 | 8 | 13 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 23 | 3 | 20 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 19 | 1 | 18 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
35 sourcesThere have been some fantastic pull requests. Examples:
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/253
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/272
In Swift open source – let the revolution beginSwift on FreeBSD build support
1 points · Open discussion"Master / Slave are perfectly acceptable words in the English language and are very well understood and widely-used term in technology. Leader / Follower as a metaphor does not describe the relationship as well. This change is objectively pointless and introduces inconsistent terminology. If you are offended by this term in some codebase then you most likely have too much time on your hands. Perhaps we can ask them to also change the name of the repo? Apple offends me and is inconsiderate because I think of Adam & Eve and the devil..."
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/165#issuecomment-1619463...
In GitHub Issue Drama [List]Replaced occurrences of master/slave terminology with leader/follower (Swift)
2 points · Open discussionMore directly, check out:
https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/cor...
Which is where much of the Swift "language" is defined... in the standard library.
-Chris
In Remove the ++ and –- operatorsPeople behind Apple's Swift since Jul 18, 2010
2 points · Open discussionSwift: Change master/slave to leader/follower
5 points · Open discussionIt's also interesting to see the graph of contributors (https://github.com/apple/swift/graphs/contributors). I noticed for example that Slava Pestov (The creator of the Factor programming language) has made a number of commits. Apple has hired some really smart people to work on Swift!
Edit: Also jckarter the creator of the Clay programming language is in there too!
In Swift is Open SourceFix the license of Apple Swift
3 points · Open discussionSwift Proposal: Implementing safe Go-lang style concurrency
2 points · Open discussionSwift: I think we should use GPL v3 instead, it's the future of open source
2 points · Open discussion... and now it's https://github.com/apple/swift/commits/master?page=824
Saved for posterity: https://archive.is/n8iIl
In Swift is Open SourceI'm really impressed by the attentiveness of the Swift compiler team. Found this in the repo: https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/666646fee95bc75ca81e1d...
One tweet and the bug is fixed within a couple of hours. Wow!
Found that issue while working on the Pythonic.swift project: https://github.com/practicalswift/Pythonic.swift (btw, contributors welcome! Know Python? If so, a very good way to jump into Swift programming is by contributing to Pythonic.swift: a Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library)
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