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Swift is being used in practice and will most likely see more use in the future as Objective-C fades.

• reificator 7y ago
  If you follow the link you'll find Swift is already above Objective-C on that survey, just that neither of them made the top ten.
  • fauigerzigerk 7y ago
    I did follow the link, but I disagree with your conclusion that being used by at least 6.6% of respondents to make apps for hundereds of millions of users amounts to "not being used in practice".
    • reificator 7y ago
      If you take my comment in isolation, that's a reasonable read. But it was a response to the following comment: > > I could not believe they had not been part of any prior language I'd learned. > Huh? They're part of Pascal (known as variant records) and plenty of other languages besides. It's mostly C that lacks them, and even then you're just expected to implement them yourself, for maximum efficiency. With the context of that post, I hope you would understand that I am disagreeing with the insinuation that every programmer has used "Pascal [...] and plenty of other languages besides". You can easily learn five different languages and finally end up in Haskell without having encountered ADTs before.