It really strikes me as odd how often I see the "Swift got too complex" criticism. IMO, all Swift got was all the best features of programming languages, design

It really strikes me as odd how often I see the "Swift got too complex" criticism. IMO, all Swift got was all the best features of programming languages, designed as good as or better than in almost all other languages. It feels like calling Swift too complex is like calling a box of tools too complex. You don't need to understand all of them to use any of them, and the easiest tools in the box are those that are perfect for 90% of jobs. Enormous caveat for SwiftUI, but that's not part of the language, it's a framework. The parts of the language that enable it are perfectly nice.