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Swift might take over the Apple world, maybe. It is pretty much useless anywhere else.

• robmcm 12y ago
  and I imagine Apple will want to keep it that way. Swift will be used as a competative advantage or lock in, depending on your level of scepticism.
  • jacquesm 12y ago
    Or a lock-out. If a language is multi-platform you have a lot more potential developers than if it is single platform.
  • rsynnott 12y ago
    This is quite a weird idea, really. Even if Swift were open sourced (and it looks like it may be at some point: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/37217 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/37...), would it _really_ be all that dramatically useful on, say, Android? Good luck making your GUI app through the JNI. There are a few Objective C apps on Android, but they're pretty much universally games (there's a Spritekit port). It doesn't really change the story for developing cross-platform apps at all.
  • saosebastiao 12y ago
    Funny, lock-in is the reason why I won't use it.