Google creating a new language? To shut it down in 3 years? Swift will be around in 15 years. It would be Microsofts F#, or Googles Dart all over again. It's a monumental task to create a language that people want to use, and an even bigger task to create tools around it (IDEs, language-specifications, cross platform frameworks, package management).
I know this is a hot take but... I doubt Google has the capability to be frank. They created Dart and Go (a.k.a generics ain't necessary). They created Tensorflow 1 which is totally different from Tensorflow 2.
Swift may not be the best but Swift is starting to become such a large part of Apple so it will have backing no matter the internal politics.
The language is not where the battle will be, it will be the tooling.
I know this is a hot take but... I doubt Google has the capability to be frank. They created Dart and Go (a.k.a generics ain't necessary). They created Tensorflow 1 which is totally different from Tensorflow 2.
Swift may not be the best but Swift is starting to become such a large part of Apple so it will have backing no matter the internal politics.
The language is not where the battle will be, it will be the tooling.