| Swift is good for enterprises that standardized on Macs and ios devices, but there aren't many of those (yet). I'm pretty sure Swift isn't ready on Windows, which is a shame because most "enterprises" standardized on Microsoft Windows and Active Directory. Go (golang) has better support for a wider variety of platforms, but it has serious bugs on non-Linux platforms (as of go 1.7.1) that make it unsuitable for the enterprise. Basically, whatever customized Linux distro used at Google will likely get the most time from superstars on the go team. Also, calling C functions and callbacks from C can cause all sorts of issues, and the "cgo isn't go" mantra scares me when considering Windows desktops, etc. as a target platform. C++ is making a comeback and I like C++14, but backwards compatibility and other factors make it too complex compared to other languages. But at least it supports all the major platforms and there's no worry it'll drop support for one due to vendor politics. Rust looks promising from a cross-platform perspective like C++, but Rust is still way too new for the enterprise just like Swift. Perhaps in five years, it'll stand a chance in the enterprise (as much as C++) and without the complex baggage from inheriting decades of backward compatibility. Who knows what'll happen by the time Swift or Rust is considered enterprise ready and truly cross platform -- maybe in 5 years, there will be a cross-platform native compiled F# that doesn't heavily favor one vendor's platform or nim might skyrocket out of obscurity -- who knows, but its fun to imagine and do some coding to make the future brighter. |