<i>esp considering that most external Swift developers will come from iOS development</i><p>I am wondering about this. To me, it seems that there is still space for a modern, pragmatic language that compiles to native code. Coming from C and C++, I have been using Go recently for applications where garbage collection and some performance loss due to a relatively weak compiler is acceptable.<p>However, I still find the lack of parametric polymorphism tedious and annoying as well as other stuff you&#x27;d come to expect from a modern language (algebraic data types, non-nullable types, etc.).<p>Does anyone who has experience with Swift think that it could be a better language for the niches Go has gained traction? (Besides iOS&#x2F;Mac development?)