Is this just the language? Will we be able to develop ios apps on windows?
This announcement concerns Swift System, which provides a wrapper over UNIX functions like `open'. Since those functions come from C, they do things like using integers to represent files (``file descriptors'') and setting errno to indicate failure. System wraps them to make them into proper Swift functions that throw exceptions and make full use of the type system. It has been open-sourced and Linux support has been added.
This, and Foundation, are frameworks that allow you to write non-gui linux apps in swift (e.g. swift on the server) - and these could potentially be ported to windows as well.