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by pjmlp 864 days ago
Apparently it had Google's money backing, for what it is worth.

I never believed into it, because Swift is as relevant as Objective-C outside NeXT/Apple's platforms, and not the kind of programming language that the research community cares about.

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>Apparently it had Google's money backing, for what it is worth

You mean they paid to have it created, like they pay for thousands of other things.

But it was never really pushed, the way they push things they want to promote.

It certainly got more love than Dart 1.0.