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You'd consider wrong. Given iOS and macOS are exponentially more popular than when Objective-C was the primary language for both OSX/iOS, Swift is far more rele

by raydev 2y ago

You'd consider wrong. Given iOS and macOS are exponentially more popular than when Objective-C was the primary language for both OSX/iOS, Swift is far more relevant than Objective-C ever was. Also Objective-C had comparably miniscule community effort in open source, the Swift on Server community is humming along, active, and businesses are using it on Linux. It's only grown in popularity... not sure Objective-C ever saw any amount of growth outside of Apple's platforms!

pjmlp 2y ago
First of all, Objective-C was opensourced during NeXT days, that is also when GNUStep effort started. Steve Jobs famously wasn't that happy about the GCC license forcing NeXT to do so, years before Apple came into play. Secondly, yes Swift is quite relevant on Apple platforms, and that is exactly why the only ones that really care about using Swift on Linux, are mostly Apple shops writing the server side of their iDevice apps, since Apple killed OS X Server, leaving Linux distributions as the only option for server side. This on Windows is kind of nice that it exists, but I doubt it will ever take off beyond what the folks at the Arc browser are doing. The language is great, however the whole ecosystem speaks Apple Frameworks.