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There is always hope I guess.

Swift library is Cocoa and even if they eventually open Swift, it is going to be as useful as Objective-C is outside Mac OS X and iOS.

Personally I don't care. What I care is about tools that make my customers happy.

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Swift has its own standard library, Foundation for things that fall outside the purview of the native stdlib (e.g. JSON parsing and regular expressions), and ApplicationKit/UIKit for GUI stuff. A multiplatform Swift + stdlib would already be quite useful for non-GUI applications on other platforms.

There are already lots of ML based languages to choose from with more use in the market than Swift.

A Swift compiler without the Mac library will be a very poor choice in regards to any existing ML language.

Potential users can decide whether or not it's a poor choice themselves. I suspect the language would be more popular than a strict reading of its merits might suggest.

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