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Can you list arguments why do you believe this to be likely?

Interoperability of Swift with the existing APIs and JVM is not impossible, but it is a significant barrier that needs to be overcome and needs very, very significant advantages to justify that.

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It doesn't seem to be particularly relevant; potential for server-side usage of Swift is one thing, but Swift apps for Android devices have quite different challenges and reasons for (non)adoption.

IMO, kotlin makes a much better candidate to be "the" cross platform language for server / client since it supports typescript as a first class citizen, and a native target is coming.

You could use the same arguments in the article you posted to posit that everyone will be developing on a Mac.

It's not very convincing to me.

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