There are several things that make me give this a thumbs down. First: "All these usability problems aren’t just making it more difficult to write code, they ar

There are several things that make me give this a thumbs down. First: "All these usability problems aren’t just making it more difficult to write code, they are unnecessarily causing the industry to lag behind academia." Industry lag behind academia? Seriously, have you any idea of the amount of data that industry crunches these days, while some in academia still think half a GB is "big data"? Or the amount of money there is in the kind of ML that industry does (which is the main reason why anyone cares about this field at all). Also, your whole post is about innovation going on at ... google. Then apple. Not academia. Secondly: "swift is fast", point taken. Then you go off on a drool about your favourite syntactic sugar. My own experience is that this is exactly the kind of thing you do not need in an enterprise-grade product.