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Re:The Decade of Swift by jbverschoor on Monday December 30, 2019 @06:05PM (#21917503)
Swift was released before kotlin
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Re:The Decade of Swift by m_ke on Monday December 30, 2019 @06:09PM (#21917530)
But wasn't open source till the end of 2015 (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=34)

Kotlin was open sourced around 2012 and people were using it in Android apps before Google officially started supporting it in 2016.

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Re:The Decade of Swift by 6700417 on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:00PM (#21917818)
Kotlin announcement 2017/5/17: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/android-an...

Swift open source 2015/12/3: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=34

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Re:The Decade of Swift by lokedhs on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @04:13AM (#21919854)
That was the official support from Google. Kotlin had been around for a long time before that. I used to write Android applications using it before Google officially supported it.
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