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Glide on June 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Swift will be open source later this year”

It'll be interesting to see how effective how many people make that transition to server side development. I mean we now have node for server side after JS becoming ubiquitous because of web browsers.

And Swift doesn't have the stigma of being a "bad" language when compared to JS.

pluma on June 9, 2015 | [–]

> And Swift doesn't have the stigma of being a "bad" language when compared to JS.

Except Swift has the stigma of being a "dumbed down" Objective-C.

Frenchiie on June 9, 2015 | [–]

are you trying to compare JS using Node.js with Swift?

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