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Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by josu on Thursday November 06, 2014 @11:45AM (#8567901)
Well, it'd be pretty weird if Go-ogle started developing their applications in Swift.
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Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by Shebanator on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:02PM (#8568007)
Actually, google does a lot of iOS development and has dozens of shipping iOS apps (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/google-inc./id281956209), and thus has a pretty sizable community of Objective C programmers. So Google will almost certainly be shipping apps containign Swift code as soon as the tools stabilize enough for them to do so.
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Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by yepguy on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:06PM (#8568998)
I think they're mechanically translating their Java code to Objective C:

https://github.com/google/j2objc

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Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by gegenschall on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:06PM (#8568035)
They might actually do that: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/google-inc./id281956209
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Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by NateDad on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:01PM (#8567997)
I don't think it would be weird if they developed OSX/iOS applications in Swift.
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Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by a_c_s on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:04PM (#8568014)
I'd be surprised if they didn't use Swift for their iOS apps.
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Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by tricolon on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:00PM (#8568962)
They're not using Swift at the moment. But they might at some point in the future. Source: friend who works at Google.
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Re:Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go by CmonDev on Friday November 07, 2014 @06:43AM (#8572074)
Apple simply doesn't have any own solutions for server-side development. Google has own languages for both client (Dart) and server (Go).
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