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My experience was the opposite, I really like Swift but its usefulness is held back by the lack of a wider community. I'm not sure if that's due to a lack of in
by hedgehog 3y ago
My experience was the opposite, I really like Swift but its usefulness is held back by the lack of a wider community. I'm not sure if that's due to a lack of investment on Apple's part, or maybe that it lives in an unhappy compromise between C++ and Python where there's always a more mature alternative that's good enough, but the language itself is quite nice to write.
- singularity2001 3y agoSame, I find swift so much more ergonomic and beautiful than rust, but the development story outside (and inside) of xcode is just ugly
- scns 3y agoAppCode being sunsetted by Jetbrains made me a little sad. Not coding in the Apple ecosystem anymore. Out of IntelliJ, Visual Studio and XCode, it made the worst impression on me
- frizlab 3y agoSwift is fully compatible with Visual Studio for those who prefer it. They have an official extension which works very well https://www.swift.org/blog/vscode-extension/ https://www.swift.org/blog/vscode-extension/ (Also, it’s Xcode)
- threeseed 3y agoScala is likely a big reason as well. It is the most similar in terms of language features and style but it has access to Java's unparalleled library and tooling ecosystem.