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		tluyben2 on June 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Swift Programming Language I would've voted for buying/licensing Xamarin instead; C#/F# would've given them everything including a lot of fresh programmers. On the other hand i'm happy they didn't as they would've tossed out Android and (at least for me) there is no alternative yet to the speed / power of development here.

orkoden on June 3, 2014 [–]

Apple has enough programmers developing for their platforms.

tluyben2 on June 3, 2014 | [–]

Depends what you call 'enough' :) I would say there is no 'enough', but he.

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