Objective-C was/is an awful programming language, one of the worst I ever had the displeasure to work with.
But at least they relied on the LLVM toolchain and the NeXTStep heritage, it was possible to use clang and many C APIs and a few wrappers around the horrible Obj-C APIs.
With Swift I don't think this will be as practical, if even possible.
They are so rich and powerful that they don't care. And most devs on their platforms are happy to drink the kool-aid.
This will take time, because they have relatively strong foundations and deep pockets, but they are going to slowly sink their ship, what they are building these days is technically unsound and pretty soon their engineering culture will have completely changed.
But at least they relied on the LLVM toolchain and the NeXTStep heritage, it was possible to use clang and many C APIs and a few wrappers around the horrible Obj-C APIs.
With Swift I don't think this will be as practical, if even possible.
They are so rich and powerful that they don't care. And most devs on their platforms are happy to drink the kool-aid.
This will take time, because they have relatively strong foundations and deep pockets, but they are going to slowly sink their ship, what they are building these days is technically unsound and pretty soon their engineering culture will have completely changed.