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There's been a lot of work on this in the last few years with Windows support, preliminary Android support is also being worked on and should appear at some point in Swift 6.

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Is swift going to do what flutter and kotlin multiplatform cannot?

It seems something like that already exists:

https://skip.tools/blog/scrumskipper

I mostly work with flutter but Skip looks pretty cool.

I think Skip is doing a lot of this via transpilation, so I think you're expected to still write a lot of Android / Kotlin code.

There probably won't be a cross-platform UI layer and many Apple frameworks won't work, although apparently the Foundation Swift rewrite already works. For a lot of companies though, simply being able to share business logic will be a big plus. At my current company we have a lot of talented Swift people and existing code written in the language so being able to share anything would be a huge advantage.

I'm biased but I personnaly find the language really productive to work with, runs fast enough for my needs and let's me target more and more platforms.

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