I was also really rooting for Swift -- it seemed like a cousin of Rust's geared more towards developer experience and ergonomics and less towards performance. U

I was also really rooting for Swift -- it seemed like a cousin of Rust's geared more towards developer experience and ergonomics and less towards performance. Unfortunately I think they squandered their impressive start by being a macOS-only language for the first several years and only becoming cross platform relatively recently.