Noble goals but even with Apple's support it's a long shot as Swift is currently a very niche language and has a lot of competitors who are moving quickly to stake-out the territory, eg. Kotlin, Dart, C# and Go.
For some reason Apple always moves slow compared to the competition in the software world. Swift is one example but also WebKit compared the Chromium or even iOS compared to Android.
Hardware wise they usually go much faster than the competition.
i feel like apple moves fast on software when their hardware requires them too. Once it’s not absolutely required they stop getting interested and probably their star software employees move to different companies or projects.
The big question for swift is whether it will manage to get an interesting use case on the server some day. And that probably is a very uninteresting topic to apple.
Now google also has some investment in that language, so we may possibly end up with something nice in the end (maybe with a good mix of concurrency and safety inbetween go and rust).
That’s my wish..
i’ve recently moved from a frontend / swift job to a backend / go job and i have to say that i don’t see swift going anywhere.
i love the language, but it is clearly going towards a very different route from go, which is gaining even more momentum.
As for the client side, i recently had to explain to a colleague the ecosystem of mobile development, and the various options, and going full native using swift really appeared to be a measure of last resort, in case when neither web tech nor cross platform techs were good enough.
And i’m saying that as someone who loves coding in swift. I just don’t see the point anymore.
