I'm not saying it's a good idea, I was just responding to your assertion that Swift was designed only for writing user-facing applications. That is not the cas

I'm not saying it's a good idea, I was just responding to your assertion that Swift was designed only for writing user-facing applications. That is not the case - this is Apple's planned replacement for low-level code as well as apps. It is this design requirement which drove Swift's abandoning Objective-C's dynamic bindings etc.