When Swift was released, it was not open source. At the moment it was open sourced, Swift was not in the news anymore and I remember thinking "ok, whatever". I

When Swift was released, it was not open source. At the moment it was open sourced, Swift was not in the news anymore and I remember thinking "ok, whatever". I wonder if this late open sourcing contributed to this. And yes, from the outside, it seems very Apple oriented. For any use case outside Apple there seems to be a (more?) suitable language.