It seems to me there's some real cognitive dissonance in the fact that Swift is promoted as a systems programming language, but its facilities are insufficient

It seems to me there's some real cognitive dissonance in the fact that Swift is promoted as a systems programming language, but its facilities are insufficient to implement its own runtime. I like the language well enough, but there's a lot of "almost-but-not-quite" frustrations about it in that domain. Bit of a tangent, I suppose, but I was disappointed to see that the actor implementation continues enlarging the C++ core of the language. I also think that combines with the fact that the project is, in reality, controlled by Apple and not truly open, to create an extraordinarily high bar for contribution. I think the very narrow needle it's trying to thread between its base case as a GUI applications environment and other types of programs may end up dooming it. You can't please all the people all the time...