[timtimmy]

I share your enthusiasm for C++ interoperability. I'm a computer graphics researcher and I have written my share of C++. I'm using Swift on my current project and there are a wealth of C++ geometry and numerical libraries that I would love to integrate without having to jump through Objective-C or an automatic binding generator. Swift is a very pleasant language to work in compared to C++ (YMMV), so being free to pull in C++ libraries natively might make it attractive to a lot of folks.