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Yep. Swift is open-source and pretty decent. Google should clean house and go with the language that would attract the most developers.

• AlexeyBrin 7y ago
  Swift doesn't work natively on Windows which is a massive downer for many people.
  • fithisux 7y ago
    Cygwin could be an option.
  • inickt 7y ago
    It doesn't yet, but good progress has been made recently on that front: https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-windows/22458 https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-windows/22458
• nnq 7y ago
  They should invest into making it pleasant to use in Linux and Windows too if they want adoption... ML devs (using mostly Linux) will not bother to build a useful rich ecosystem of general purpose libraries. And amongst the other devs, Windows matters a lot, macOS is a small and shrinking niche outside US.
• panpanna 7y ago
  1. Why would swift attract most developers?? It's a fairly small language outside the iOS bubble. 2. Google has invested tons of money in 3 different languages and each works _extremely_ well in it's intended domain. 3. Even as open source, remember Apple has a history of crippling software on competing platforms.