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As long those languages aren't native, they won't be nearly as popular as swift. Swift doesn't need to be adopted outside of iOS development at all, because whe
by munmaek 7y ago
As long those languages aren't native, they won't be nearly as popular as swift. Swift doesn't need to be adopted outside of iOS development at all, because when people develop iOS apps the main choice will be Swift.
Swift is actually a very pleasant language, and apple provides some pretty good documentation although it could be better.
It's going to play out like this: Swift or Objective-C (for legacy codebases/people who already experts in objective-c and don't want to switch), and some other, slower languages that will always be second class.
- cesarb 7y ago> Swift doesn't need to be adopted outside of iOS development at all, because when people develop iOS apps the main choice will be Swift. That would mean its fate would be tied to iOS, which is used only on phones built by a single company. When that company stopped producing mobile phones, or decided to use a different operating system, the language would die.
- munmaek 7y agoCorrect, which would lead us to ask a pertinent question: Is this likely to happen in the next 10 years? I would be inclined to say no, it's rather unlikely, short of apple somehow suddenly going bankrupt.