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Swift is mainstream because Apple replaced Objective-C with it for iOS and said that it's new standard for writing apps. How much of Swift is written out of App
by lossolo 10y ago
Swift is mainstream because Apple replaced Objective-C with it for iOS and said that it's new standard for writing apps. How much of Swift is written out of Apple ecosystem? Not much.
- eridius 10y agoApple didn't replace Obj-C. They added Swift alongside it. Literally nobody is being forced to switch, and all of Apple's frameworks are still written in Obj-C (they can't be written in Swift until Swift has ABI stability). Yes, Apple's weight helped Swift tremendously. But people are switching from Obj-C to Swift because they think it's better, not because Apple's making them. > How much of Swift is written out of Apple ecosystem? Not much. Not much yet, because the Linux support is still missing a lot, but it's being filled in quickly, and a lot of people seem to be excited about being able to start using Swift on Linux.