Swift has no use beyond writing software to target Apple users. Apple isn't viewed as friendly to open source since you can't even distribute software to their

Swift has no use beyond writing software to target Apple users. Apple isn't viewed as friendly to open source since you can't even distribute software to their platform without going through their censorship/taxation centralized review process. (And an army of people will rush to tell you this is okay.) The meme of Swift being useful to anything but Apple devs needs to die.