I find so much of modern technology to be a huge step backwards.
Example: People used to call friends over a land line and tell them to tune into the movie on whatever channel and they’d watch at the same time together from two different places. Doing anything like that with modern tech is such a hassle these days that no one does it anymore.
> You could set her back 8 iOS versions and she probably wouldn't notice. Because she uses none of the hundreds of features released since.
Not a chance. I think she would immediately notice because the web of today is always going to be far more bloated than the web of eight generations ago.
Trying any dated browser+hardware combo on the modern web is noticeable to all users I feel.
> However, Swift's biggest problem is that any usage outside of the Apple ecosystem is a second(or third) class citizen. Until this is solved, Swift will remain mostly an Apple only language, regardless of how nice it is.
I think a time goes on this is more and more only a perception and not a reality. However perception is really important because it’ll mean even if it’s a great language with a great set of tools and libraries for all platforms it will not have a community of developers outside of the Apple ecosystem.
It’s an open source project that’s more and more detached from Apple itself every release, with lots of contributors making it better and better on Android and windows all the time.
It is possible to get a vscode ide environment working for cross platform development and debugging today, which was not that easy or possible even a few years ago.
There is at least one pretty sizable software project that has shipped a product on Android and windows using swift.
I think swift 6 is going to be great for cross platform uses, but convincing folks to try it still won’t be easy.
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