Daniel and Manton react to Swift’s open-sourcing, and the extent to which it adds momentum to the language and increases its appeal. They also discuss the open-sourcing of Microsoft’s MarsEdit-esque blog editor, Windows Live Writer.
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- Swift.org – Apple’s new home-page for the Swift open-source project.
- WebKit.org – Another example of a major open source project from Apple.
- Swift-Evolution – Apple’s project dedicated to mapping the future of Swift.
- IBM Swift Sandbox – Interactive Swift compiler web page from IBM.
- Perfect – Swift-based web server project.
- Lasso – Old-school software from Perfect developer Kyle Jessup.
- Ecto – The once-powerful competitor to MarsEdit.
- OpenLiveWriter – Open-source blog editor based on Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer.
- WordPress 4.4 – The latest open-source version of WordPress, code-named “Clifford.”
- WordPress.com REST API – Server-side API against which Calypso is built.
- WP REST API – Open-source API being gradually introduced to WordPress.org project.
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