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And to this day the only shops that actually care about Ruby in the West are doing Rails and not much else, to the point Rails == Ruby.

Swift has already achieved that, Swift == Apple platforms.



I don't follow your argument. Ruby is a single-use-case language so therefore Swift must also be? I can point to many languages which have achieved adoption in more than one domain as counter-examples.


Like Objective-C?


Does Objective-C have a 1st party open-source runtime, and Linux and Windows targets in the main CI pipeline?


It has the former: https://opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-781/


That is just libobjc, which is basically useless except if you actually plan to reimplement everything Foundation does. ObjC IS de-facto Foundation, without NSString, NSArray, etc no library will ever work. GNUStep is more likely to be considered a decent multi-platform implementation of an Objective-C runtime, or WinObjC from Microsoft.


It does now. It was closed source when ObjC was a relevant language


It has been available from Apple for at least a decade.


And the source that is available today dates back all the way to 2001.




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