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		ytch on June 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift, and why it hurts you (from an GNUStep devel... But even Swift is lake of portability, so is Objective C. For example, It is hard to port iOS project in Objective C to android. So I think Swift doesn't change anything?

thehme on June 5, 2014 [–]

According to some articles while "there are many tools available to port Objective-C to Java i.e port an app from iOS to Android...porting Swift apps to Android will now become a tough task for developers."

http://thehackernews.com/2014/06/apples-new-swift-programmin...

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