Apple has been pushing Swift on Linux enough that I've been checking out its progress every so often. It will probably never get entirely free of ObjC but it's

Apple has been pushing Swift on Linux enough that I've been checking out its progress every so often. It will probably never get entirely free of ObjC but it's a nice enough language that I'd really like to be able to use it for cross-platform desktop applications. Having a pretty robust standard library and a stable ABI (currently just on macOS) are big plusses, in my book. Having a built in REPL is icing (delicious, delicious icing).