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Agreed. It is the Cocoa Frameworks that are actually the closed source components in all of Apple powered OS'es. Despite the articles' inaccuracies, it would st

Agreed. It is the Cocoa Frameworks that are actually the closed source components in all of Apple powered OS'es. Despite the articles' inaccuracies, it would still be very interesting to see Swift being used in other platforms for both server-side activities and in mobile apps.

Recurecur 11y ago
Personally I'm most excited about Swift for general purpose development, including desktop, embedded and scientific programming. It's one of very few languages that can challenge C++ as a systems language, due to efficiency and lack of garbage collection.