On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 18:54:08 UTC, Emre Temelkuran wrote:
I just saw that on stats, Apple Swift 3 is fastest growing
language ever and if you check what's behind, it's D.
Swift is the outlier here in the language landscape.
- pushed and marketed by Apple as an important lockin into their
ecosystem (why invest so much effort else?)
- replaces Objective-C which is not the most pleasant or sensical
language
- explicitely targets newcomers to programming, in XCode a new
Swift program is a "Playground"
- consultants don't want to be left behind and now sell Swift to
clients
Swift could succeed whatever it does.
