Rimtariro

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by Rimtariro 2y ago
Don't make it sound like a zero-sum game, because it is not. They don't have to drop any of the support they provide for other languages right now. In fact, they don't even have to do that much for Swift. They don't have
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by Rimtariro 2y ago
It's not about Apple. Google/MS would invest for their own sake, so that it would translate into more apps (earlier, not as a second class citizen) on their platform, which in the end would bring money as well.
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by Rimtariro 2y ago
"open themselves to have more developers supporting theirs?" -- Thats exactly what is missing from Google/Microsoft. Apple is already supporting Swift on other platforms, however, developer experience is not as good as on ma
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by Rimtariro 2y ago
They don't have to jump though, many iOS developers also do watchOS/macOS apps but they are still "iOS developers". If they can bring one more platform under their belt with little effort, I would say that many of them w
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by Rimtariro 2y ago
It's not a zero-sum game, they don't have to reduce support for other languages. It would be a completely new source of developers for these platforms. Better 1% than 0%, and I would say that effort for that would not outweigh th
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by Rimtariro 2y ago
Those languages are already well supported on Apple platforms from the language makers themselves, there is not much Apple can do to "support them" better. Opposite is not true though, there are lots of troubles you have to go thr
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by Rimtariro 2y ago
I feel like Swift is a big miss from Google/Microsoft. If they supported Swift on their systems (properly supported), they would immediately open up their platforms to lots of Swift developers, and I think the benefit would be more tha