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Great for small projects, people coding for fun, learners, and early adopters/neophiles who enjoy keeping up with all the changes. But substantial projects need solid, stable tools.

Lots of projects more important and substantial than anything you and I have worked on have been shipped with Swift. So that argument doesn't really fly. Apps redone/adopting Swift include Twitter, Pandora, Groupon, Fitbit, etc.

(Heck, major billion-dollar companies had built parts of their production infrastructure on Node when the thing was just on very early stages).




LinkedIn gave a tech talk some time ago at the SF NSMeetup. The LI app was written since Swift 1.2 and has had a good deal of growing pains since then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9waDi787uo (14:15-15:30, 39:26-40:37)


That just shows that big companies can have poor judgment too.


Only if we assume from the start that it's "poor judgement".

That is, precisely what we are trying to access.




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