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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by Longhanks on Sunday March 05, 2017 @04:06PM (#13798633)
As a Linux/Windows developer, you probably are not the primary target audience of Swift.

As a developer for Apple platforms, am I right to consider C# or Java toy languages, too?

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by thehardsphere on Sunday March 05, 2017 @04:39PM (#13798867)
There are many Java apps for Mac and Apple used to provide its own implementation of the JRE.
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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by optimiz3 on Sunday March 05, 2017 @04:12PM (#13798681)
There are thousands of Apple and Android C# apps (see Xamarin).
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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by coldtea on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:53PM (#13799358)
Which, again, is besides the point. The parent was mocking the idea that just because a language doesn't support a platform it can be called a "toy language".

C# that he mentioned wouldn't be toy languages even if there were 0 Apple and Android C# apps. It would just be a totally professional Windows language with no Android/iOS support.

C# was professional even when it only supported Windows (and partially FreeBSD), before Mono came along...

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by comex on Sunday March 05, 2017 @06:07PM (#13799428)
> C# was professional even when it only supported Windows (and partially FreeBSD), before Mono came along...

As well as the decade-plus when Mono existed but wasn't owned by Microsoft, making cross-platform support merely incidental or even a negative from Microsoft's perspective.

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