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Considering I've seen this said multiple times in Swift post on HN, I have to ask, why do you keep asking? From what I can remember they said It would be there by Fall...its clearly not fall yet, so why the impatience?

Based on prior Apple behavior, they will first ship iOS and OS X, and then they do all their open source drops after the releases.

Presumably, new iOS and OS X will ship this fall, so the open source drops will come soon after. Hopefully fall, but winter at the latest.

I expect a Linux port to be made available, but did they actually promise that? From what I can tell, they promised the open source part, and announced their intention to have ports to OS X, iOS and Linux (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=29)

In the big WWDC keynote, they said they wanted to help kick things off with a Linux port this year.

That's exactly what I said: intent, not promise.

... Swift as OS...

Whatever does that mean? Swift is not an operating system.

I think OS == Open Source in this case.

Probably? This article doesn't address that one way or the other.