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I really do enjoy working in Swift too, but the anemic cross-platform story is a colossal hurdle to selection as the primary development language in many commer

I really do enjoy working in Swift too, but the anemic cross-platform story is a colossal hurdle to selection as the primary development language in many commercial cases. It seems to me that Apple's strongly insular instincts serve them well for integrated product design, but for the Swift language, alas, they form a severe hindrance to wider adoption.

cageface 3y ago
The vision of Swift as a truly cross platform, modern language Apple laid out in the initial announcement was genuinely exciting. Unfortunately it seems like they didn't really mean it.
pjmlp 3y ago
Hardly any different from going with .NET (many stuff is still Framework only), or C++ with OS specific SDKs like MFC/WinUI/...
varjag 3y ago
If cross-platform is your thing 'fraid Objective-C isn't a great sell either.
- mpweiher 3y ago
  At least two open-source compilers, several runtimes, several Foundations. What more do you want?
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    Both lagging behind what Objective-C on XCode actually means, and without the libraries that make Objective-C actually relevant.
    - mpweiher 3y ago
      I find that not to be the case in practice.
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- inopinatus 3y ago
  We have other choices and end up using Apple-specific languages for bridge code.
Someone 3y ago
They’re working on making foundation cross-platform. When that is done, things should look a lot better for non-GUI applications.