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gwbas1c 3 hours ago

Swift "feels" like C#. A lot of systems programming is done in C#.

Depending on your goals, it's worth giving C# a test-drive given Swift's similarity to C#.

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pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Traditionally I would say it feels more like Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal.

And if making reference counting part of the picture, Cedar, Modula-2+,...

Finally catching up with what we already had in the 1990's and lost, in a couple of decades split between C, C++ and VM based languages.

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gwbas1c an hour ago | parent [-]

> Traditionally I would say it feels more like Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal.

Well, that's from the Objective C history; and Objective C borrows a lot from those languages.

The thing is, once you're doing systems programming, it's unlikely you're going to call any Objective C APIs, or APIs that have an Objective C history. You're more likely to call something in C.

	▲	pjmlp 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		NeXTSTEP systems programming was done in Objective-C, including writing drivers. Also Objective-C has nothing to do with those languages, so I got lost in what history. It picks from C and Smalltalk.