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Swift seems a pragmatic take on functional programming. Apple backing means the compiler, libs and runtime will get a lot of work.

• pjmlp 12y ago
  And Microsoft puts money on F#, Haskell and OCaml, all of which already have better Linux support. Swift is great for pushing functional programming down the throat to mainstream developers that wish to target iOS, but it is no more pragmatic than OCaml or F#. For the OP use case, targeting Linux server software is already better served by the languages I mentioned.
  • curtis17 12y ago
    > but it is no more pragmatic than OCaml or F#. Swift seems more approachable then those languages. Pragmatic in the sense that Rust and Kotlin are.
    • pjmlp 12y ago
      I fail to see how.