Not sure how you read "Swift’s approach to string length isn’t unambiguously the best one" and interpret it as "Swift got it wrong." The author's substantive c

Not sure how you read "Swift’s approach to string length isn’t unambiguously the best one" and interpret it as "Swift got it wrong." The author's substantive criticism of Swift's String/Character/etc. types seems to be complications arising from the dependency on ICU (such as not necessarily being able to persist indices across icu4c versions).