Check out this talk from Ayaka on just this topic! 
https://realm.io/news/swift-scripting/

> On Dec 15, 2015, at 12:37 PM, @lbutlr via swift-users <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 15, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Swift doesn’t seem like a good fit for the kinds of tasks people write 
>> shell-scripts for. It’s a system/app programming language, like C/C++. 
>> Scripting languages have extremely dynamic typing, super-high-level APIs, 
>> and no separate compile/link stage.
> 
> One possible advantage is that it would be relatively easy (instead of 
> nigh-impossible) to have a shell script that interacts efficiently with the 
> GUI.
> 
> But yes, this is mostly meant as a way for me to get a handle on the language 
> by writing things I am familiar with and have some investment in.
> 
> -- 
> Stone circles were common enough everywhere in the mountains. Druids
> built them as weather computers, and since it was always cheaper to
> build a new 33-Megalith circle than to upgrade an old slow one, there
> were generally plenty of ancient ones around --Lords and Ladies
> 
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