Its fair to say that if you adopted Swift as soon as it was announced you should have expected some pain, especially given all the warnings Apple put out about

Its fair to say that if you adopted Swift as soon as it was announced you should have expected some pain, especially given all the warnings Apple put out about it. I think the issue is that for the last year or two all of the tutorial websites and the third party library ecosystem have moved from Objective-C to Swift in a big way. If you are new to iOS development this might lead you to have a false sense of security with regard to the overall stability/quality of the language. Swift is a lot of fun when it works. I hope this year's WWDC will mark a big turning point for the language. Last year it was pretty painful, especially if you needed to use third party Swift libraries.