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		plorkyeran on May 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additio... They announced that it would be open-source in the future almost immediately.

comex on May 16, 2020 [–]

Not "almost immediately". They announced it would be open source at WWDC 2015, a year after Swift was first introduced at WWDC 2014. The actual open source release then happened a few months later in December 2015.

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