> It’s not a goal to rewrite Foundation from scratch in Swift. All Swift apps 
> that are running out there today are in fact using a combination of Swift, 
> Objective-C, C, C++, various flavors of assembly, and more. The goal is to 
> present the existing API of Foundation in a way that fits in with the 
> language today while allowing us to iteratively improve it over time.

Perhaps my concern is a higher level - I don’t understand where Foundation is 
envisioned going.

>From my perspective, Foundation is highly coupled to Apple platforms and 
>Objective-C on one side, and part of the Swift standard library on the other. 
>Perhaps long-term Foundation should be split into two new things - a core 
>library for cross-platform swift development, and the infrastructure for 
>Objective-C interoperability on apple platforms only.

-DW

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