Ask HN: Has Apple announced a language whose name clashes with an existing one?

Yes,

but so did Google years ago. The author even filed a bug report.

There are many languages with the same name as another lesser known one. Go was taken before google used it -- there was already a Pearl before Perl.

Yes. Do they care? No.

Actually the Swift website is down, too, overwhelmed by everyone searching for the Apple flavour.

yes

unbelievable