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by dinkblam 856 days ago
absolutely the same here.

the problem with Swift is that it is a systems programming language and not an app-development language. far to cumbersome, complicated and unproductive for writing apps.

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What makes it a systems language and not an app-development language?
different buzzwords
This is objectively false. It's first and foremost an app development language. In fact this is a common complaint, that Apple pushes too many features that are specific to app development and now SwiftUI.
What's an example of an app development language?
> “Swift is … not an app-development language.”

Huh? As compared to Objective-C, with Swift you generally get more done with less boilerplate, less repetition, and certainly far less semi-colons and square brackets.

If you consider ObjC to be an app-development language, I can’t really imagine how Swift can’t be one?