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Why? Swift has never worried about it, and Dart’s target market is a lot closer to Swift. Swift has made large backwards-incompatible changes 3 times now.
by jnwatson 4y ago
Why? Swift has never worried about it, and Dart’s target market is a lot closer to Swift.
Swift has made large backwards-incompatible changes 3 times now.
- alwaysbeconsing 4y agoHow many Swift users consider that a good thing though? Swift is on railroad tracks: you have to upgrade on Apple's schedule or eventually you won't be able push your product to the store. Also, 2 to 3 was a nightmare and the Swift team itself is actually pretty chary about doing anything like that again.
- pianoben 4y agoI've been a mobile dev for many years now. Every team I've been on either largely avoided Swift for the first 3-5 years, or was burned hard due to the constant churn. It's much more stable these days, but personally I'm still wary of the team's (past?) proclivity to make sweeping incompatible changes.
- Apocryphon 4y agoI feel the same way towards SwiftUI, which seems to have an even more rockier upgrade path than Swift.
- faizmokhtar 4y agoNot being able to run project that's using older Swift version on the latest Xcode is a terrible experience tho.