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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.
by 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 agoOr a lock-out. If a language is multi-platform you have a lot more potential developers than if it is single platform.
- rsynnott 12y agoThis 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 agoFunny, lock-in is the reason why I won't use it.