You should be comparing Swift (iOS) with Ketlin (Android). I'm leaning towards Ketlin, just I can't afford Apple. We'll see what Google will do with Go. -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 12:14:04PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | | Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive.� They | originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more performance but not | to the level that would require assembler or even C. | | What else have folks observed?
I'm sitting far on the sidelines. I've never used Go or Swift. From a distance, they look similar.
Swift seems to have a lot of take-up in the iOS world. Anything else would be going against the grain.
Swift has been released to the world, but I don't hear of it being used much outside of iOS (I might be deaf). I'm not sure why. I know that I don't trust Apple to leave anything open. Maybe the library is second-class outside of iOS.
Go isn't supported as much as I'd expect by Google. For example, TensorFlow no longer supports Go -- Python all the way. I don't even know if Android SDK supports Go.
The game of Go is all about capturing territory. I think programming language adoption has similarities. Google's AlphaGo is the best Go player in the world.
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