Re:Google scored points with its community by supporting Kotlin
by swsieber on Sunday May 21, 2017 @09:32PM
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IMO, kotlin makes a much better candidate to be "the" cross platform language for server / client since it supports typescript as a first class citizen, and a native target is coming.
You could use the same arguments in the article you posted to posit that everyone will be developing on a Mac.
It's not very convincing to me.
Re:Google scored points with its community by supporting Kotlin
by PeterisP on Sunday May 21, 2017 @09:17PM
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It doesn't seem to be particularly relevant; potential for server-side usage of Swift is one thing, but Swift apps for Android devices have quite different challenges and reasons for (non)adoption.
Interoperability of Swift with the existing APIs and JVM is not impossible, but it is a significant barrier that needs to be overcome and needs very, very significant advantages to justify that.