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Re:What's new in Swift 3.1 by ploxiln on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:33PM (#13496418)
> Xcode 8.3 drops support for Swift 2.3. So, if you were holding back on your migration to Swift 3.x, now is the time to make the switch!

Python 2.x keeps working pretty well for many large backend-service codebases that need a lot of stability.

Swift 2.x is used for iOS and macOS client/UI apps that get significant UI "enhancements" every year. The stability desire is much less, in every sense.

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Re:What's new in Swift 3.1 by nodamage on Thursday January 26, 2017 @07:54PM (#13496856)
iOS developers are also (for better or worse) already used to things breaking every year when a new iOS release rolls around.
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Re:What's new in Swift 3.1 by valuearb on Friday January 27, 2017 @01:27PM (#13501512)
Migration isn't that hard, and it's worthwhile.
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