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uhura ◴[01 Feb 25 19:07 UTC] No.42901158[source]▶

I believe that this long game of Swift being "good for everything" but "better for Apple platforms" will be detrimental to the language. This does not help the language nor seems to bring more people to the ecosystem.

Competitors seems to have a combination of: - Being more open-source - Have more contributors - Have a narrower scope

Maybe they should consider open sourcing all the tooling (like Xcode) otherwise the gap will only grow over time when compared to other languages.

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1. pmarreck ◴[02 Feb 25 03:59 UTC] No.42905687[source]▶

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> I believe that this long game of Swift being "good for everything" but "better for Apple platforms" will be detrimental to the language. T

uh, wasn't .NET open-sourced under exactly the same pro/con, except towards Windows hegemony?

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