On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 17:59:35 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Will be interesting to see how Swift does
Considering it won't be available for Windows, I'd guess not very well and it will remain a niche language until it does. There's a reason D shot up in popularity after it started to support windows more thoroughly.
Sure you can say that since it will be open source, people can create Windows versions. But without Apple merging changes upstream (which they have never said they would do) I really don't see those efforts lasting long before people realize the effort involved probably isn't worth it.