this post makes me realize why swift is starting to look more and more bloated from an end-user pov. It was designed to be right from the beginning. instead of

this post makes me realize why swift is starting to look more and more bloated from an end-user pov. It was designed to be right from the beginning. instead of carefully backing off complex problems and slashing features to keep the design elegant, they just "went for it" at full speed. History will tell if that was a good thing.