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by ChrisMarshallNY 2094 days ago
I love Swift, and it would be a great systems language, but it is important for system languages to have some kind of "bare metal" interfaces, with solid, predictable binary expression. Even C generally needs to be implemented in some kind of specialized embedded form for a lot of tools.

To me, Swift is a fairly high-level language, and I like that. I cut my teeth on the bare metal, and don't really miss working at that level.