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BuckRogers on June 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Swift will be open source later this year”

Swift for me is what Python3 should've been. For me as a Python user, this development is huge.

I've been watching for the language to move to instead of Python3. Of Rust, Go, Swift and other new languages, Swift always seemed to me the most appealing language.

Being the 1st class citizen on iOS makes learning this for serverside development very appealing. An ideal server language that enables single language client-server applications possible with iOS.

Once the popular libraries start to drop Python2 support (which may take decades, who knows), this is a no brainer as the language to migrate to instead of moving to the much less robust Python3 ecosystem.

scotty79 on June 9, 2015 [–]

... or you could just move to coffeescript and have something even more clay-like than python running everywhere.

ergo14 on June 9, 2015 | [–]

its still javascript with its quirky behavior in the end.

scotty79 on June 9, 2015 | | [–]

yup, but I haven't seen anything more flexible and terse, and those are the qualities that drawn me to python

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