Chris Lattner on the Realm WWDC 2017 Swift Panel
Interesting interview. Java is mentioned many times as language Swift aspires to replace. He is right about Kotlin:<p>&quot;Kotlin is very reference semantics, itʼs a thin layer on top of Java, and so it perpetuates through a lot of the Javaisms in its model.<p>If we had done an analog to that for Objective-C it would be like, everything is an NSObject and itʼs objc_msgSend everywhere, just with parentheses instead of square brackets. ..&quot;<p>I think Swift has real chance to reach Java level popularity. It is already at #11 in Redmonk ranking. All languages above Swift are at least 15 year older than Swift. And once it server side features like concurrency it can be much more general purpose.