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.
