Swift is coming, Swift is coming

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 17:59:35 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> A Wired article about Swift coming to the server, particularly 
> after the imminent open-sourcing, that also mentions D as an 
> alternative, especially since it's written by the same guy who 
> wrote about D for Wired last year:
>
> http://www.wired.com/2015/11/apples-swift-ios-programming-language-is-being-remade-for-data-centers/
>
> Will be interesting to see how Swift does, a good natural 
> experiment for those pushing D to focus on one niche before 
> expanding, as Swift is doing really well on one of the most 
> important development platforms today, iOS, before expanding 
> onto the server.  Of course, Apple is unlikely to really push 
> it on the server, other than open-sourcing and accepting 
> patches, so they have a built-in excuse if it doesn't do well. 
> ;)

Maybe we have a good opportunity to compete with Swift at home.

Avoiding XCode, not being tied to a particular SDK, being able to 
target very ancient systems are some of the pluses I've found 
when using D with OS X.
I'd bet using D for iOS can entail similar gains, and avoid being 
tied to an Apple language.