Looking at it, and who is backing it and what support they have, I think Swift has a pretty good shot at being an "it" language for a while. Let's face it, Swi

Looking at it, and who is backing it and what support they have, I think Swift has a pretty good shot at being an "it" language for a while. Let's face it, Swift is the iOS programming language and it looks like IBM is putting some effort into porting it. Now, historically IBM and Apple are a bit hit and miss (with a lot more misses), but I think they will succeed with this one. I do wonder if IBM is getting a bit nervous about Java these days. If Swift had its own Rails or meant for a container deployment framework then things would be a lot clearer. This does not come from a Swift fanatic as I view Swift as my next Transact-SQL. A language I will do work in and become very proficient, but I'm not loving it.