[Eleutheria]

I wish they had an agreement with Apple for the next 10 years for the use of Swift so we could write our apps once and run everywhere.

But we all know the NIH syndrome, which is a shame since everybody is adopting Google's web extensions standards and they should adopt whatever is best for all in other technologies too.

[Grazester]

Swift? As an Android Developer I think it would not be a great idea. C# maybe a better language(wasn't that open sourced?). It much closer to java than swift is and would allow people like me to move cover over faster.

I started off as a C# developer and had not done any real work in java before. I was able to move my C# code(couple thousand lines of code) over to Java in a matter of hours.

Anyway I do not wish or hope for a language change period.

[Reason077]

Given that you know C# and Java, you should not have a great deal of trouble learning other C-family languages, including Swift.

Objective-C was/is a bit of an exception to this, as it's "funky" syntax could be a bit intimidating to developers coming from other languages - one of the motivations for Apple's switch to Swift was to address this.

[exabrial]

You do realize the JVM and related bytecode have been along around _a lot longer_ than Swift.... right?

[cwyers]

And,uh,wasn't invented by Google.

[aljones]

They wouldn't need an agreement with Apple.