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I have never looked into Swift, because it seems to me, as a non-Mac developer, like a niche, Mac-only language. In my mind, if I'm not developing for the iPho

I have never looked into Swift, because it seems to me, as a non-Mac developer, like a niche, Mac-only language. In my mind, if I'm not developing for the iPhone, why would I use Swift? If I need to write a CLI app, why, of all languages, would I pick Swift?

latexr 3y ago
> I have never looked into Swift Which is a valid choice, but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t successful or that it hasn’t taken off. Swift has achieved exactly the goal it was supposed to: become the official language for Apple platforms, replacing Objective-C as the entry point. > If I need to write a CLI app, why, of all languages, would I pick Swift? You probably wouldn’t. Other people might, for a variety of reasons including enjoying the language itself. I write CLI apps regularly and use several languages; Swift is one of them.