That makes 2 of us. When I've read "So much of the repetitive boilerplate code that was necessary for C++ melted away in Swift" my eyes rolled over. For me Swif

That makes 2 of us. When I've read "So much of the repetitive boilerplate code that was necessary for C++ melted away in Swift" my eyes rolled over. For me Swift repetitive boilerplate is on par with the one in C++. Clearly the author never touched Ada nor Python, if that's the number one reason he wanted another language to eliminate the repetitive boilerplate. I suspect he just wanted to learn Swift and that's a good reason enough to make this rewrite, as he admits in the final paragraphs of the article: "I’ve enjoyed learning Swift and am much happier with the state of the code now"