Yeah <@U74HWEPTP> I'm just saying that, since ther...
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chi
03/19/2018, 6:43 AMYeah @Shawn I'm just saying that, since there's the IDE feature with a language Kotlin is interoperable with (Java), why isn't it with Swift on intellij
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Andreas Sinz
03/19/2018, 7:32 AMJetbrains would need to create a whole parser/analyzer for swift just to have auto-convert feature for swift, that sounds like too much work for little to no benefit
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chi
03/19/2018, 9:51 AMthat could also be argued in a way for the one for Java.
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Andreas Sinz
03/19/2018, 10:04 AMjava is different in this case, because you are inside a JAVA-IDE, so everything to parse and understand java code is there, just need some AST -> Kotlin Code converter. Swift would need a magnitude more work to get this stuff done
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chi
03/19/2018, 11:34 AMOh yeah, that makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification
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