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by mgoblu3 2820 days ago
We moved a very large iOS app over to Swift, and the first two benefits are really huge. I know people have opinions on these things, and both sides are right, but the really strong typing and enforced nullability have been hugely important to getting junior engineers contributing to the codebase.

Not saying that it's an unsolvable problem elsewhere, it's just an anecdotal benefit we got