Swift is coming, Swift is coming

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 10:06:14 UTC, Chris wrote:
> I don't know Swift well enough to comment on its features or 
> merits, but it is naturally a success on iOS, because loads of 
> people develop for iOS and sooner or later Apple's new favorite 
> child will get everybody's attention. Server side, hm, I don't 
> know. Will it run on Linux? How common are Apple servers? As 
> far as I know, most server systems are Linux/Unix or Windows. 
> That would make Swift a niche language on niche servers, 
> wouldn't it :)

Apple announced earlier this year that Swift will be ported to 
linux and open-sourced, so yes, it will.

> It's nice, though, that D was mentioned in an Apple related 
> article.

It also mentions Go and Rust as alternatives.