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ShadowBanThis01 on Oct 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17

I believe you. But try selling that to management. And when the language isn't used for any of the other software maintained by the company and nobody is going to be given time to learn it to keep the knowledge in-house... forget it.

cageface on Oct 20, 2023 [–]

I think your overall velocity with Flutter is going to be much higher than QT. The dev experience is so much nicer.

You are going to have to be willing to stick your neck out a bit though, that’s true.

ShadowBanThis01 on Oct 20, 2023 | [–]

I wish they'd used Kotlin. The endless proliferation of languages from Google devalues each one.

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