[throwaway91111]

Well, multicore isn't going away; concurrency (if not parallelism) is necessary for responsive UIs.

Did you have any specific improvements? The big requirements for distributed programming are mostly protobuf serialization and tcp/http; swift has both already.

[zzzcpan]

I was thinking more in terms of first class support for distributed actors, with global addressing, message routing, etc. Not designing for multicore performance first, the way Pony did.