On 2014-09-21 07:55, Cliff wrote:
Swift will never be more important than Objective C was - which is to
say it'll be the main development language on Apple products and
probably nothing else. That has real value, but the limits on it are
pretty hard and fast (which says more about Apple than the language
itself.)
.NET suffers a similar problem in spite of the community's best efforts
with Mono - it'll always be a distant 2nd (or 5th or 20th) on other
platforms. And on Windows, C++ won't get supplanted by .NET absent a
sea-change in the mindset of the Windows OS group - which is notoriously
resistant to change (and they have a colossal existing code base which
isn't likely to benefit from the kind of inflection point Apple had
moving to a BSD and porting/rewriting scads of code.)
Unfortunately the user base is so large on these platforms that it's
enough for these languages to only work on one particular platform and
the developers will invest a huge amount work on it anyway. The
languages will have a large user base even though they only work on one
platform.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
