I think that&#x27;s because there weren&#x27;t many Swift users who weren&#x27;t already on board with the Apple hype train, for obvious reasons. I don&#x27;t do iOS dev personally, so it&#x27;s never seemed worth my time to learn, but it seemed like a cool language.<p>(By the way, I <i>have</i> done iOS dev in the past, and Objective-C has grown a lot under Apple&#x27;s recent guidance from where it was 20 years ago. Again, if there were a free-software runtime supporting modern Objective-C -- last I checked, GNUstep was a bit out-of-date -- I might have considered it as an option for development on non-Apple platforms.)