D future ...

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 February 2017 at 21:46:32 UTC, bpr wrote:
> You're missing what I consider to be 'the Big Picture', namely 
> that Swift will become popular on non-Apple platforms, and it 
> needs to be fairly capable to compete with Go, Java, and C++, 
> and others. IBM is already backing server side Swift to some 
> degree.

I don't know if that will happen anytime soon. I think the 
functionality that the original creator has suggested for 
system-level programming has to be in place first. Currently the 
language/runtime  is geared towards best practices inherited from 
Foundation/Objective-C/Cocoa/macOS... Which makes sense, but 
makes Swift a second rate citizen in other environments.