Well ... He and Xamarin had to due to the iOS ecosystem and the language/library bindings they have to do there for .NET/C#/F# usage. But aside of that, I thin

Well ... He and Xamarin had to due to the iOS ecosystem and the language/library bindings they have to do there for .NET/C#/F# usage. But aside of that, I think Migual appreciates good language design on high level languages. His original pitch for Mono for usage in GNOME was about productivity I guess not about .NET fandom. And Swift as a productivity language to replace Objective-C is surely an interest for him. Event as a .NET fanboy (like me) you have to look what other languages are doing. So much good stuff out there.