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by ryanwaggoner 2940 days ago
Ha. This is hilarious. Most high-profile / successful iOS apps (other than games) are native. And judging from what I’m seeing in the ecosystem, I’d guess that most teams out there have switched to Swift or will do so soon. There’s very little enthusiasm or innovation in the Objective-C ecosystem at this point.

The lack of a major UI update in the last few years is a feature, not a bug. It doesn’t seem to have held back either iOS device sales or the Swift ecosystem.

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I don't think you got my comment right. I was advocating for apple to expand swift to other platforms ( android, pc desktop, web, server, whatever), in order to compete with techs like flutter.

The reason cross platform tools weren't a good fit before and are now is both because hardware is now powerful enough, and because platforms have now reach a stable point.