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0 pointsuntog9y ago0 comments

> One argument for Swift is also that Swift is used on the client almost as often as Javascript is.

That can't be even slightly close to true. The amount of web code out there already dwarfs native iOS, and the majority of native iOS code out there is probably still in Objective C.

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colechristensen9y ago

I think he's talking about the proportion of swift that runs on the frontend vs. backend. The comparison is like JS in your browser vs. node

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsuntog9y ago0 comments

> One argument for Swift is also that Swift is used on the client almost as often as Javascript is.

That can't be even slightly close to true. The amount of web code out there already dwarfs native iOS, and the majority of native iOS code out there is probably still in Objective C.

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colechristensen9y ago

I think he's talking about the proportion of swift that runs on the frontend vs. backend. The comparison is like JS in your browser vs. node

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse