[LeoNatan25]

Swift has not abandoned this dispatch method "from the get-go", it is still very much one of the supported dispatch methods in the Swift runtime.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10725707 https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...

[pcwalton]

Well, for Objective-C compatibility, and maybe for interfaces/protocols (depending on whether they use fat pointers or not), they need that capability. But Swift tries to push you into C++-like vtables when possible.