Agreed. Swift has been such a disappointment in every department. If you took Objective-C, modernized the syntax (removing the old bracket syntax that scares

Agreed. Swift has been such a disappointment in every department. If you took Objective-C, modernized the syntax (removing the old bracket syntax that scares new people away from it), and added some more functionality where it is missing (eg. strings), you'd end up with a much much better language than the kludge that Swift is.