Silver is a free implementation of Apple's Swift programming language.
With Silver, you can use Swift to write code directly against the .NET, Java, Android and Cocoa APIs. And you can also share a lot of non-UI code between platforms.
Silver is currently in Beta, but already very usable. Just enter your email address below, and we'll sign you up for immediate access. It's Free!
Built on over ten years of solid compiler knowledge and technology, Silver is a truly native Swift compiler for the .NET CLR, the Java/Android JVM and the Cocoa runtime.
Silver supports three platforms, but is decidedly not cross-platform, focusing on letting you leverage the Swift language natively for each individual platform, rather than encouraging mediocre cross-platform apps. With Silver, you can share your language and tool expertise, and you can share a lot of back-end business logic code – but you will use it to write apps targeted at each platform individually. Why? Because that's how great apps are made.
Silver is not just a compiler, but a complete toolchain and development environment for creating apps.
For developers working on Windows, Silver integrates deeply with the state-of-the-art Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 IDEs from Microsoft (included for free).
For developers on the Mac, Silver comes with Fire, our own development environment designed from the ground up for the Elements compiler and for light-weight, productive work on the Mac.
Dive into the Silver documentation at docs.elementscompiler.com/Silver.
RemObjects Silver is absolutely free of charge to use, both during the current beta period, and once we release the shipping version.
We're a small company. We have (and continue to) operated self-funded and self-financed for over ten years now, and we have no large backers nor millions of venture capital to finance product development, but we still do need to pay for salaries, rent, test hardware, infrastructure and many other things.
We've always relied on our product revenue for these costs, so making a major new product free is a big change and a big gamble for us. If you like Silver and believe in what we are doing with the product, we'd love for you to consider supporting its development with a small (or not-so-small) financial contribution.
Any level of contribution will earn you our eternal gratitude. Contributing $99 or more will give you private access to our weekly alpha/beta builds and allow you to be more closely involved with the product team for a year.