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"Swift’s rise is impressive, as it’s jumped five positions to 11th place since last year, when it first entered the rankings"

Swift will enter the top 10 next year after more iOS developers finally see it as stable. The big source changes in the upcoming 3.0 have caused a lot of people to wait.

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Or maybe not if more developers realise they can create the majority of mobile apps in JS using React Native.

There was talk about being able to run Swift apps on Android in the future. If it becomes official i think the community around swift would be pretty large.

About that... Naaa. While i appreciate diversity, this is non gonna happen... Swift is too different to be a serious alternative

.. or Ionic, or Cordova, or PhoneGap.

Those are just webviews.

Nativescript, titanium, xamarin, or qt is where react native would be categorized with

Well, assuming they leave it alone for a while.

Apple has developed a bad habit of abandoning compatibility with their developer tools. While this is somewhat more excusable with Swift, given that it's fairly new, it's pretty annoying to have to (e.g.) basically relearn Xcode from scratch with every major release.

Apart from Xcode 4, its been a fairly incremental development for Xcode in my experience.

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