That con is a pretty big one. Macs have less than 10% desktop market share.

gganley · on July 13, 2020

In this case Swift is being used on the server, so that could be an officially supported platform[0] which if I recall correctly is macOS, Ubuntu, CentOS, Amazon Linux 2, and Windows as of Swift 5.3.

pjmlp · on July 13, 2020

Swift on Linux is pretty much WIP, with an ecosystem that is Mac first and hardly considers another platforms.

On Windows with luck 5.3 will be the first version that the compiler actually works, let alone existing libraries that barely work on Linux.

save_ferris · on July 13, 2020

Why does this matter? It’s a server, not a desktop application.

azangru · on July 13, 2020

> you're bound to Xcode (and therefore macOS) for development

I would prefer languages that don't dictate what hardware/software to use for writing them.

save_ferris · on July 13, 2020

I get that, but it still doesn't explain why the above poster used the MacOS market share as a detractor in this case. If you value languages that don't dictate hardware/software for you, then Apple was probably never a serious contender for you.