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> Problem is Swift engineer supply is low, there's not a viable business case to learn Swift because it's not actually viable cross-platform for development Th
by lnrd 2y ago
> Problem is Swift engineer supply is low, there's not a viable business case to learn Swift because it's not actually viable cross-platform for development
The Swift business case is that in many situations native is strongly preferable than cross-platform. Excluding some startups that wants to go to market super fast and consulting companies that have to sell the cheapest software possible, usually the benefits of native outweighs the ones of cross platform.
For this reason now there are plenty of companies of all sizes (faangs included) that build and maintain native apps with separate iOS/Android teams. There are very good business reasons to learn Swift or Kotlin in my opinion.
- refulgentis 2y agoRight -- no one read my comment and thought I meant Swift was unnecessary or businesses don't use it. Contextually, we're discussing Swift for cross-platform dev.
- lnrd 2y agoI'm glad you know what everyone thinks while reading your comments.
- refulgentis 2y agoWell I was trying to be kinder than just leaving you downvoted and confused why. I guess I shouldn't have bothered, my apologies. Hope your week gets better!