Sure, if you forget about C, Java, TypeScript, SQL, and many others.

Swift isn’t gaining much adoption because Apple aren’t putting much effort into promoting its use outside of the Apple ecosystem. And why would they when they don’t care about non-Apple stuff

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lmm a day ago | parent [-]

> Sure, if you forget about C, Java, TypeScript, SQL, and many others.

C has had multiple implementations from multiple implementors for decades. Java wasn't really tied into Sun's ecosystem, and had an enormous marketing blitz. TypeScript was even less of a Microsoft "company language" - and I think it's interesting that Dart felt a lot more tied into everything Google was doing, but ultimately lost out.

	▲	hnlmorg 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Go isn’t tied to Googles infrastructure any more than any of the other languages.