You should be comparing Swift (iOS) with Ketlin (Android). I'm leaning towards Ketlin, just I can't afford Apple. We'll see what Google will do with Go. -- William Park <opengeome...@yahoo.ca>
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 12:14:04PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> > | > | Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive.� They > | originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more performance but not > | to the level that would require assembler or even C. > | > | What else have folks observed? > > I'm sitting far on the sidelines. I've never used Go or Swift. From > a distance, they look similar. > > Swift seems to have a lot of take-up in the iOS world. Anything else > would be going against the grain. > > Swift has been released to the world, but I don't hear of it being > used much outside of iOS (I might be deaf). I'm not sure why. I know > that I don't trust Apple to leave anything open. Maybe the library is > second-class outside of iOS. > > Go isn't supported as much as I'd expect by Google. For example, > TensorFlow no longer supports Go -- Python all the way. I don't even > know if Android SDK supports Go. > > The game of Go is all about capturing territory. I think programming > language adoption has similarities. Google's AlphaGo is the best Go > player in the world. > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk