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Embedded swift has a loooong way to go before it is practical. Large memory foot print, no static memory layout to name just 2 fundamental issues. Can “Any” and dynamic dispatch ever be supported? Not sure what the point of swift is on MCUs as good lanuages for this exist now.

It’s still a useful language mode. For instance for compiling to WASM. Static mem layout is also getting there with a few implemented proposals like Span types and a stack-allocated array type. According to the authors Any and dynamic disp could be supported but both require in-binary..

Actually, just language support for MCU is still such a handicap if not also supporting an OS. All my MCU projects run on freeRTOS. If swift were decent on the MCU but no (freeRT)OS came with it, I’d stay away from it still.