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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by cesarb on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @09:05AM (#19980694)
> Swift doesn't need to be adopted outside of iOS development at all, because when people develop iOS apps the main choice will be Swift.

That would mean its fate would be tied to iOS, which is used only on phones built by a single company. When that company stopped producing mobile phones, or decided to use a different operating system, the language would die.

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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by munmaek on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @09:13AM (#19980786)
Correct, which would lead us to ask a pertinent question: Is this likely to happen in the next 10 years?

I would be inclined to say no, it's rather unlikely, short of apple somehow suddenly going bankrupt.

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