Hacker News Reader

I'm fairness, when Swift was first released it was basically Apple devices only. It took forever for Foundation to get ported to other platforms (and good luck writing anything useful without Foundation).

View on HN

Yes this exactly. People are also conveniently ignoring or forgetting that Apple kept changing the ABI for Swift binaries - it wasn't until 'v5' did they lock it down. Objective-C is 30+ years old and only once had this issue with the ObjC 2.0 release. Really, Swift v5 was the real v1.0 release because it was at that version Swift was truly ready for primetime.

When C#/.NET was first released it was basically Windows devices only, too. First release: 2000, cross-platform and opened up in 2014, if I’m reading Wikipedia correctly.

When Android was first released it was basically Android devices only, too. Still is.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com