[matt4077]

I recently tried my hand in the macOS ecosystem and I must say I was positively surprised by XCode. It's "intellisence" is incredibly fast compared to VSCode.

One argument for Swift is also that Swift is used on the client almost as often as Javascript is.

[untog]

> One argument for Swift is also that Swift is used on the client almost as often as Javascript is.

That can't be even slightly close to true. The amount of web code out there already dwarfs native iOS, and the majority of native iOS code out there is probably still in Objective C.

[colechristensen]

I think he's talking about the proportion of swift that runs on the frontend vs. backend. The comparison is like JS in your browser vs. node