It didn’t do that yet, and time will tell whether it will. I don’t think anybody expected it to replace all use of Objective-C within a decade (Swift was announced publicly in June 2014).
Comedic proposition. It had extremely limited ecosystem support. The steward of the ecosystem had far more specific & narrow intents than any real & meaningful success would have required. Think different doesnt broke cooperation, ya'll; ya gotta play with others too. It is known.
Its really about the industrial interest in it. Swift made it hard to adopt and gain skills because pretty much every day something big would change with it that did not make it easier, it made it harder to use. You couldn't manage a code base with it because with every new thing they changed it blew up everything. So you might make a driver in Swift, but only for apple because the only alternative is Objective-C, which is also just slightly more sane than C++ which should be put in an asylum.
Since I hate apple and their languages I'm never going to bother with them again. Either the language or the company.
