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		outside1234 on June 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Swift Programming Language Why is this platform not JavaScript based (so we can leverage the largest ecosystem in the world) or Python based or anything-else-that-exists based? In other news, has Android killed iOS yet so we can stop worrying about Apple? Can't happen soon enough.

krrishd on June 2, 2014 [–]

If you take a look at Swift, a lot of the different constructs are implemented similar to how they would be in languages like JS or Python.

outside1234 on June 2, 2014 | [–]

I think that's my point. Why not JavaScript then?

The only reason I can see is vendor lock-in.

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