Re:The Decade of Swift
by endorphone on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:58PM
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Just to clarify Google's choice of Kotlin -- the maker of their IDE invented and did all of the heavy lifting with Kotlin, including building the JVM targeting compiler, and the IDE to develop it in (which is the foundation of Android Studio). Adopting Kotlin was very close to free for Android, and was really just rubber stamping what a lot of developers were doing regardless.
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JetBrains is a plague on mobile development. Their current business model appears to be selling workflows which are totally dependent on their proprietary tooling, and make over-complex monstrosities of mobile applications
From what I remember Kotlin came to Android before Google embraced Jetbrains and Android Studio.
Re:The Decade of Swift
by endorphone on Monday December 30, 2019 @06:11PM
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May 2013 - https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/05/15/intellij-idea-is-...
May 2017 - https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/17/15654988/google-jet-brain...
You could use Kotlin for years before Google officially endorsed it...given that Android Studio is made by JetBrains and they made it trivial to use. JetBrains did 100% of the heavy lifting, and Google just conceded eventually.