is swift programming language legit?

MarciknoW

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I'm asking cus I wanna start programming on my Mac and I've been reading up on it...let me know brehs
 

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I honestly see no reason to use it. It's primarily used for ios development. iOS has 22.85% market share in the mobile space where as Android has much higher.

Mobile Operating System Market Share Worldwide | StatCounter Global Stats

You should look into Kotlin as it's similar to Swift.



It can be used outside of android development. Swift can be used outside of iOS development as well. But Kotlin is interoperable with Java. The Java/JVM ecosystem has been around since the 90s so by using Kotlin you have access to a mature ecosystem and that's a huge plus.

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Don't worry if iOS has only x market share. Look at the usage and economy of the iOS market

It isn't pointless, but if you're learning to program in Swift, you should just do C or even Python. It's used on so many backends its unbelievable
 
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