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Myriad reasons. If—for whatever reason—someone likes to program in Swift, having high-quality implementations available on various platforms is a win.
> Other platforms tend to allow you much better choices.
This assumes an objective measure of programming language goodness. Whether a language is better than Swift is an opinion. Opinions vary.
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Myriad reasons. If—for whatever reason—someone likes to program in Swift, having high-quality implementations available on various platforms is a win.
> Other platforms tend to allow you much better choices.
This assumes an objective measure of programming language goodness. Whether a language is better than Swift is an opinion. Opinions vary.