With Microsoft's recent push to make technologies like the .NET CLR, C#, ASP.NET, and so on available on non-Windows platforms (such as Linux and OS X), this do

With Microsoft's recent push to make technologies like the .NET CLR, C#, ASP.NET, and so on available on non-Windows platforms (such as Linux and OS X), this does become a factor for a great many more developers. On one hand, we can choose a younger, less-mature language/platform like Swift. On the other, we can choose C# and .NET, even if we're not targeting Windows, and get a very mature and capable language with a superb standard library, and a very large existing user community. Whether they like it or not, Swift and its community will have to compete with what .NET offers. As it currently stands, Swift is likely on the losing end of many of these competitions in many cases. Will this change in the future? Perhaps. But it will take a lot of effort from the Swift team and its supporters.