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0 pointsdanford11y ago0 comments

Don't know why you're getting down voted, sure Swift has some neat features, but if any other company released something like this that was closed source, no one would really care.

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jp55511y ago

Any other company who's language runs over 1.3 million apps used by hundreds of millions of people on average every 6 minutes?

romanovcode11y ago

Oracle and Microsoft. But their languages (Java and C#) are not platform dependent.

Just an example:

>Microsoft released C# Roslyn source code, announce Linux support with K Runtime this year

They're going to the right direction, maybe someday...

>Apple released Swift, closed source language that runs only on one platform (Mac)

Apple is so awesome, keep innovating guys! Now let's write a webstack and nosql db using Swift!

mnem11y ago

C# is hideous to get running consistently (if at all) with recent versions and libraries cross platform. Perhaps this will change in the future, but they've not been particularly brilliant about it over the past decade

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vor_11y ago

He's getting down voted because his assertion that the attention paid to Swift is driven entirely by hipsterism is Slashdot-esque nonsense. People who make a living writing Objective-C will be making a living writing Swift.

archagon11y ago

Because calling people "hipsters" for liking a new language is juvenile.

anentropic11y ago

is/was Javascript open source?

what matters is the platform

no one cared if Javascript the language was open source when it was the only way to do client side scripting for web pages.

similarly Swift has iOS and OSX - other languages are available on these but I guess developers are anticipating Apple emphasising Swift over Objective-C going forward

danfordOP11y ago

Well it's hard to say that JS had this much attention in 1995. Let's give swift 20 years and see where it takes us?

mikeash11y ago

No other company has a platform with hundreds of millions of users where the first-party app development language is so old and crusty.

pjmlp11y ago

Java compatibility and NDK ...

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