Swift?
Not a single snarky mention of Apple "borrowing" the name from err Swift? Unlike El Reg to miss a swipe at Apple.
Swift, the second-most-loved programming language by Stack Overflow's estimation, has showed up on IBM's BlueMix cloud platform, dressed for general availability. She began performing as a runtime on BlueMix in February, when IBM provided a way to load a Swift binary into Linux containers, to build it as an application, and to …
Sure, there are some nice ideas in Swift -- just like all the other C-descended languages knocking around. But there are also some very, very ugly choices that the designers made in the language foundations. For example: different type coercion rules for literals versus constants?