Swift Ported to Android

#1

Post by adamjernst » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 12:59 PM UTC

Swift Ported to Android
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Re: Swift Ported to Android

#2

Post by manojlds » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 2:26 PM UTC

Interesting, in the context of Xamarin acquisition by Microsoft. Swift can very well spoil C#'s steam.

Re: Swift Ported to Android

#3

Post by nbevans » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 2:33 PM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #2

Interesting, in the context of Xamarin acquisition by Microsoft. Swift can very well spoil C#'s steam.

F# is already spoiling Swift's feathers. And F# has first class support in Xamarin.

Re: Swift Ported to Android

#4

Post by Touche » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 2:35 PM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #2

Interesting, in the context of Xamarin acquisition by Microsoft. Swift can very well spoil C#'s steam.

I would say that React Native is the biggest threat there.

Re: Swift Ported to Android

#5

Post by akerro » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 2:44 PM UTC

Interesting, but even Apple doesn't use switf on iOS. So is there really a point?

Re: Swift Ported to Android

#6

Post by rimantas » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 2:45 PM UTC

akerro wrote: post #5

Interesting, but even Apple doesn't use switf on iOS. So is there really a point?

What?

Re: Swift Ported to Android

#7

Post by nbevans » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 2:46 PM UTC

nbevans wrote: post #3

manojlds wrote: post #2

Interesting, in the context of Xamarin acquisition by Microsoft. Swift can very well spoil C#'s steam.

F# is already spoiling Swift's feathers. And F# has first class support in Xamarin.

It seems two people here were left thinking "I'm going to down vote this because the truth hurt me :("

So I am sorry for that :)

Re: Swift Ported to Android

#8

Post by miguelrochefort » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 2:49 PM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #2

Interesting, in the context of Xamarin acquisition by Microsoft. Swift can very well spoil C#'s steam.

Swift isn't a significant improvement over C#. Also, keep in mind that C# benefits from the whole Microsoft ecosystem, which includes Visual Studio.

Beyond the language, what's even more important is the application model. That's where frameworks like React Native have the edge. This might change if Microsoft upgrades Xamarin.Forms into full-blown Universal Windows App support (think WPF on iOS and Android).

Re: Swift Ported to Android

#9

Post by Smudge » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 2:50 PM UTC

rimantas wrote: post #6

akerro wrote: post #5

Interesting, but even Apple doesn't use switf on iOS. So is there really a point?

What?

Wasn't a very useful comment, but what I think he/she meant was that Apple doesn't actually use Swift much in its own apps:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/18/apple-making-spars...

A lot of devs take this to mean Swift should be avoided for now.

Edit: To be clear, I don't agree with this sentiment! Swift is awesome. Just trying to clear up the parent comment's confusion!

Re: Swift Ported to Android

#10

Post by ungzd » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 2:52 PM UTC

Why Android requires special support? Isn't it just linux with quite standard libc and ABI to interact with Java counterpart?