After years of being shunned by traditional corporate dogma for years, companies are now starting to embrace open source. Microsoft could be recalled as an advocate of Linux and other open source solutions which was a surprised for some. And now it seems that Apple has stepped up to the plate.

A few days ago the company's, CEO Tim Cook, has announced that their Swift programming language is now also open source. It could be said that this isn't the first time the tech company went the open source route but could prove to be the most significant yet.

According to Apple, after the company unveiled the Swift programming language, it quickly became one of the fastest growing languages in history. Swift made it possible to write software easily that is incredibly fast and safe by design. And now that it is open source, users, fans, enthusiasts and developers alike, can help make the best general purpose programming language available everywhere.

The Swift coding language's second major iteration was revealed last June at the WWDC, where the tech company also announced their plans to make the code open source by the end of 2015. And it seems like that time has come. Swift 2.0 transitioned into free ability was launched with a new website.

Swift.org will be including systems for bug reporting, tutorials, mailing lists, an engineering blog and API guidelines into their site. The Swift programming language has been released with an Apache 2.0 license which is notably the same foundation that was used for the last year's launched open sourced portion of Microsoft's .NET framework.

Enthusiasts and developers who would like to take their chance to check out the code will be able to find it on GitHub. The project includes the REPL command-line environment, standard and core libraries, compiler, and LLDB debugger. Swift's package manager has also been introduced to allow modules to be collected in a single place. Apple plans to have it evolve into a response to future community feedback.

Meanwhile, Swift 3.0 has been detailed ahead of its release with Apple mapping out the major changes that is set for the version change. These changes will include the source compatibility which will allow the code to compile even if the language changes in the future. It could be noted yet again, that this does not currently exist with the 2.0 version so Apple has been issuing caution to their developers.