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From my outside looking in perspective:

* Android studio is reliable and just works.

* Kotlin is simple, easy to learn and productive.

* xcode is buggy and with their rapid pace of development it is just getting worse.

* Swift is complex. They had to rethink and redesign multiple times. Also the language was constantly changing under them.

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> Android studio is reliable and just works.

How I wish this would be true.

There is a reason why so many rather use InteliJ with Android plugins, or even drop into VSCode with Gradle instead, only starting Studio for workflows that have to be done inside it.

There is hardly a "stable" release without regressions.

Swift hasn't changed much in the last 2.5 years, and was stable for the year before that, so it really shouldn't be an issue any more.

Yes, but kotlin has been much more stable for more years.

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