Obviously my comment of irresponsibility was “given that there is a choice.” Though that’s one nice thing about Swift: it has a very good interop’ with C now,

Obviously my comment of irresponsibility was “given that there is a choice.” Though that’s one nice thing about Swift: it has a very good interop’ with C now, and a “starting to get pretty good” interop’ with C++. So that can help, sometimes. (Obviously, I reiterate, I understand there are situations where the choice is just not possible, and enhancing C and C++ is indeed a good thing.)