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Swift is different niche, though. Rust, Go, Nim, D etc can be used for writing Mac, Linux, Windows apps. Swift is practically limited on MacOs & iOS.
by anta40 3y ago
Swift is different niche, though.
Rust, Go, Nim, D etc can be used for writing Mac, Linux, Windows apps.
Swift is practically limited on MacOs & iOS.
- latexr 3y agoThe comment I quoted claimed that for a language to take off it needs first class Windows support. If we’re going to limit the discussion to languages which “can be used for writing Mac, Linux, Windows apps”, then the argument is pointless. By definition, any language which can be used to write Windows apps has Windows support. That’s circular logic. To address the argument, it only makes sense to discuss languages which don’t have¹ first class Windows support. Everything else is irrelevant. ¹ Or didn’t but were still popular at that time.
- ezekg 3y agoSwift has support for server web apps (https://vapor.codes/ https://vapor.codes/), so I assume it has some interoperability with other operating systems.