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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi by earenndil on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:10AM (#16187251)
Swift is more applications programming than OS or systems. It does have those capabilities, but no one is using it for that and it's not really the intent.

However, to the extent that swift (and obj-c!) are used for systems programming, those programs are useable outside of apple platforms.

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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi by pjmlp on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:53PM (#16188184)
It is definitely the intent of Apple, explicitly mentioned on their developer documentation as C and Objective-C replacement.

"Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages."

https://developer.apple.com/swift/

As mentioned in another comment, most of the time the issue is political, not technical.

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