Do you realize how far Java reaches into the enterprise?
And with Swift's focus still being around the walled garden of iOS/OSX development, even with the open sourcing there are many more "IFs" to achieve before Swift rivals Java in adoption.
Don't get me wrong. I don't use Java and I have made apps for iOS (though not with Swift yet unfortunately). I like Swift and intend on trying it. But rivaling Java? Certainly no time soon.
Yes, I've done Java in the enterprise. It's a 20 year old language and there's an estimated 9 million Java developers.
Swift is only one1 but with open source and cross-platform ability (Microsoft will port to Windows), I think we have several million Swift developers with 5 years.
As much as I like Swift, without real garbage collection I wouldn't want to use it an any enterprise project. Keeping track of ownership of reference counted objects shared between who knows how many other objects sounds like a nightmare.
I'm referring to cases where you have to use unowned, etc, to break reference cycles. The larger the application the harder it is to find these issues.
