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tjl on July 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift Blog

Swift can call Objective-C APIs, so if you're building Mac or iOS apps, you'll get access to the full Cocoa API. You can't build iOS apps in Scala (as far as I know) and I've never been a fan of Java GUIs.

pjmlp on July 12, 2014 [–]

Just compile to native code using an AOT compiler like RoboVM.

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