Apple Releases Swift 2.2 Programming Language with Ubuntu Linux Support

31

After announcing the availability of the iOS 9.3, Mac OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan, watchOS 2.2, and tvOS 9.2 operating systems, as well as the Xcode 7.3 IDE, Apple now released version 2.2 of its Swift programming language for OS X and Linux.

We can’t say that this comes as news to us, Linux users, as Swift 2.2 has been in development for the past few months. In the first days of December 2015, Appleannounced that it makes its innovative programming language open source. The development is being tracked on GitHub, where you can get the source code. And today, March 21, 2016, the Linux community can finally download the production version of Swift 2.2, …