[inopinatus]

I’ve written a few command-line utilities in Swift lately and really enjoyed working with it. The type system I find especially appealing, being an enabler far more than an impediment, and coming from writing tons of C and Ruby there’s a lot that is familiar. Thus making the current multi-platform story a real shame, it’s a massive barrier to ever choosing Swift for a significant project.

It feels like Apple’s reflexive parochialism is limiting their influence, and that is something only leadership could overturn. I doubt they feel any financial incentive to do so.