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Originally Posted by edgeprod
There's a place at the table for both languages, but for mobile it seems like Apple is going to make Swift have less friction for the iPhone app approval process.
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I agree and Swift certainly reduces the complexity aspect of barrier to entry of app development.
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Originally Posted by brandonstills
I glanced at it. Definitely much better than Objective-C but I still don't like that they didn't just go with an off the shelf language that already has an ecosystem behind it. I haven't really done mobile too much other than simple Hello World apps. Personally, I think I'm going to make the shift to Android. It seems like it has much better developer support and you don't have to deal with app store bullshit.
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Honestly I have never seen a better, more comprehensive and cohesive development documentation and help environment than there is available in the Apple Development program. Even the built in documentation in Xcode is hard to beat when compared to Android development.