Where will D sit in the web service space?

[Etienne via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 16:57:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 14:50:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>>> ART.  Of course Metal isn't general-purpose, nobody said it 
>>> is, but I don't see why you'd say Swift isn't.
>>
>> Swift is clearly designed around Objective-C and Cocoa.
>
> Oh, and I didn't respond to this because I didn't even know 
> what you meant, think I got it now.  You're now saying Swift 
> isn't general-purpose simply because it's initially designed 
> around Apple's Cocoa OS APIs?  Being tied to a single platform 
> doesn't make a language any less general-purpose, and since 
> they announced that they're open-sourcing Swift later this 
> year, it will be ported to other platforms, just as Obj-C has.

Apple has become such a taboo subject. They've invested so much 
on subconscious gratifications that nobody can discuss the 
company objectively. I mean, Swift is general purpose because the 
holy masters of computer culture "want" to open source it, and 
open source can become general purpose, right? Eh..