April 20, 2010
Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes SWIG as its newest member. SWIG joins 19 other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects.
SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is used with different types of languages including common scripting languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby. The list of supported languages also includes C#, Java, Lua, Octave and R amongst others. SWIG is most commonly used to create high-level interpreted or compiled programming environments, user interfaces, and as a tool for testing and prototyping C/C++ software.