Google may make Apple’s Swift as a ‘first class’ language for Android
Sources say that representatives from Google, Facebook, and Uber had recently met in London to discuss Swift. If Google were to support Swift for Android, it would need to create a runtime for the language. Additionally, its whole library would need to be made Swift ready. Some low level Android APIs are C++ which Swift cant bridge to. They would have to be rewritten. Also, some higher level APIs in Java would need to be rewritten....