Considering Apple's approach to most things it seems about right. Even if the language was extremely good and better at many non-Apple stuff, you would still be

Considering Apple's approach to most things it seems about right. Even if the language was extremely good and better at many non-Apple stuff, you would still be right to question its viability. Apple doing what is best for Apple regardless of what people need or what you could expect from a reasonable partner is the only reason you need to not bother with swift anywhere else than on Apple hardware. This is a company that switched off the ability to execute 32bits software on hardware that was natively capable just with an arbitrary OS update. I used to be very naive, but I would not rely on anything Apple that is not clearly linked to their hardware (so that their interest at least somewhat aligne with yours). Nowadays I would go as far as saying that if you do not directly make money from using Apple hardware, you should not bother at all. I believe most end up learning this either the hard way or by simple observation ; and one cannot come to any other conclusion than avoid Apple stuff outside of Apple hardware...