The engineering culture at Apple is quite peculiar, and in my opinion, a bad fit for creating standards, especially programming languages. I hated Objective-C

The engineering culture at Apple is quite peculiar, and in my opinion, a bad fit for creating standards, especially programming languages. I hated Objective-C when I had to deal with it, basically writing a wrapper around it for cross-platform compatibility of the framework I was using at the time (C++/OpenGL). I spent a few hours looking at Swift and it seems simply worse in all dimensions that I am interested in. Apple would benefit greatly by adopting standards instead of trying to push their own. Darwin was built on Unix/BSD foundations, it was a good move.