Swift was always subject to a tug of war between the design purists - Chris and his ilk- and the product purists, i.e.Apple employees using Swift and with influ

Swift was always subject to a tug of war between the design purists - Chris and his ilk- and the product purists, i.e.Apple employees using Swift and with influence on Swift's design) The latter has silently won the war and any use of Swift as a systems programming lang/env is left as a "isn't it nice than you can" rather than a P1 design goal for the language (or even P2 for that matter) After 10 years and exposure to dozens of languages, I find Swift to be utterly delightful to write anything with, and wish that it did have the drive behind it to become a more generalized and cross platform. language, but I'm under no illusions that it will while pre-WWDC and pre-product-unveiling narratives are driving the direction of the language from the back seat of the car.