[lnrd]

> Problem is Swift engineer supply is low, there's not a viable business case to learn Swift because it's not actually viable cross-platform for development

The Swift business case is that in many situations native is strongly preferable than cross-platform. Excluding some startups that wants to go to market super fast and consulting companies that have to sell the cheapest software possible, usually the benefits of native outweighs the ones of cross platform.

For this reason now there are plenty of companies of all sizes (faangs included) that build and maintain native apps with separate iOS/Android teams. There are very good business reasons to learn Swift or Kotlin in my opinion.

[refulgentis]

Right -- no one read my comment and thought I meant Swift was unnecessary or businesses don't use it. Contextually, we're discussing Swift for cross-platform dev.

[lnrd]

I'm glad you know what everyone thinks while reading your comments.

[refulgentis]

Well I was trying to be kinder than just leaving you downvoted and confused why. I guess I shouldn't have bothered, my apologies. Hope your week gets better!