There are three advantages that I saw immediately upon switching to Swift:
- It was easier to hire developers
- Code was less prone to null pointer exceptions
- There were fewer assumptions when deserializing JSON into a struct/object
- It was easier to hire developers
- Code was less prone to null pointer exceptions
- There were fewer assumptions when deserializing JSON into a struct/object
Not saying that it's an unsolvable problem elsewhere, it's just an anecdotal benefit we got