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“By making Swift open source the entire developer community can contribute to the programming language and help bring it to even more platforms,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Swift’s power and ease of use will inspire a new generation to get into coding, and with today’s announcement they’ll be able to take their ideas anywhere, from mobile devices to the cloud.”

Federighi also announced Swift v2 will be released this year and that will come with numerous new features. Developers will be able to use Markdown in comments, pattern matching in “if,” and synthesized “headers” in Xcode alongside other improvements like a faster runtime and shorter compile times.