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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by coolreader18 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @08:45PM (#19014910)
dom96 was probably thinking of Nim[0], as they're one of the developers in the project.

[0] https://nim-lang.org

Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by nimmer on Monday January 28, 2019 @05:45AM (#19016452)
Yes, as well as libraries, tools, applications that are not in the hands of one or few companies only.

Plenty of technologies get hyped up by companies and later on bent out of shape or dropped.