I never believed into it, because Swift is as relevant as Objective-C outside NeXT/Apple's platforms, and not the kind of programming language that the research community cares about.
You mean they paid to have it created, like they pay for thousands of other things.
But it was never really pushed, the way they push things they want to promote.
I never believed into it, because Swift is as relevant as Objective-C outside NeXT/Apple's platforms, and not the kind of programming language that the research community cares about.