[austinz]

Sometimes I wonder: if Apple's new language had been Go, and Google's new language had been Swift, how would reaction by developers and adoption have differed? (You can also run this thought exercise with Go and Rust, if you prefer a different competition between self-proclaimed systems languages.)

[kxo]

I'm not totally sure how a non-optionally garbage-collected language with a runtime could ever be called a "systems language."

[_ak]

The "systems" in the term "systems language" the Go team used shortly after initially releasing Go refers to systems like Google has them running.