OT: Swift is now open source

[tcak via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 4 December 2015 at 02:59:21 UTC, tcak wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 December 2015 at 20:37:04 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 12/3/15 3:16 PM, Meta wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> You may misunderstand -- I prefer semicolons. But having to 
>> write swift code for a few weeks, I find now when I write D 
>> code I forget them all the time (where usually my proper 
>> semi-colon rate is near 100%).
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Since you have experience, what is the level of the language? 
> Is it C or Javascript level? It is not clear by looking at 
> example codes, and I do not have much time these days to try 
> anything new. (My first post was written by looking at code 
> examples.)
>
> Are you able to define C bindings? Can I do socket programming? 
> Are Posix function accessible? How is the speed?

What I am seeing here is "import Glibc" (without semicolon at the 
end - pun intended).

https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2015/12/03/introducing-the-ibm-swift-sandbox/