It's not about Apple. Google/MS would invest for their own sake, so that it would translate into more apps (earlier, not as a second class citizen) on their platform, which in the end would bring money as well.
"open themselves to have more developers supporting theirs?" -- Thats exactly what is missing from Google/Microsoft. Apple is already supporting Swift on other platforms, however, developer experience is not as good as…
They don't have to jump though, many iOS developers also do watchOS/macOS apps but they are still "iOS developers". If they can bring one more platform under their belt with little effort, I would say that many of them…
It's not a zero-sum game, they don't have to reduce support for other languages. It would be a completely new source of developers for these platforms. Better 1% than 0%, and I would say that effort for that would not…
I feel like Swift is a big miss from Google/Microsoft. If they supported Swift on their systems (properly supported), they would immediately open up their platforms to lots of Swift developers, and I think the benefit…
It's not about Apple. Google/MS would invest for their own sake, so that it would translate into more apps (earlier, not as a second class citizen) on their platform, which in the end would bring money as well.
"open themselves to have more developers supporting theirs?" -- Thats exactly what is missing from Google/Microsoft. Apple is already supporting Swift on other platforms, however, developer experience is not as good as…
They don't have to jump though, many iOS developers also do watchOS/macOS apps but they are still "iOS developers". If they can bring one more platform under their belt with little effort, I would say that many of them…
It's not a zero-sum game, they don't have to reduce support for other languages. It would be a completely new source of developers for these platforms. Better 1% than 0%, and I would say that effort for that would not…
I feel like Swift is a big miss from Google/Microsoft. If they supported Swift on their systems (properly supported), they would immediately open up their platforms to lots of Swift developers, and I think the benefit…