"Many features which are just now being introduced in Swift have existed for over a decade in .NET languages."
And nobody but insecure people give a crap. The rest of us just want to use good tools to get our jobs done.
And nobody but insecure people give a crap. The rest of us just want to use good tools to get our jobs done.
On one hand, we can choose a younger, less-mature language/platform like Swift. On the other, we can choose C# and .NET, even if we're not targeting Windows, and get a very mature and capable language with a superb standard library, and a very large existing user community.
Whether they like it or not, Swift and its community will have to compete with what .NET offers. As it currently stands, Swift is likely on the losing end of many of these competitions in many cases. Will this change in the future? Perhaps. But it will take a lot of effort from the Swift team and its supporters.
One area Apple has a huge leg up is its API design. All of Apple's frameworks are well thought out and easy to use. Microsoft, not so much. One glaring example is Bluetooth: CoreBluetooth is a straightforward abstraction, whereas Microsoft's is a total Frankenstein shit show.