Comment by skohan

> I predict in the future there will be some tech startup that will go all in on the Swift ecosystem and be able to run circles around the competition.

Personally I'm really interested with what's going in with Swift in the math/science space. The work that's going on with Automatic Differentiation is fascinating, and the Numeric library which has just been released should make it much easier to achieve highly accurate numerical results in Swift.

I agree with you that Swift's public perception is out of step with the reality of the language. It certainly has issues, and when comparing the developer experience with something like Rust, it falls way short on things like tooling, and platform support, but it's just so easy to be productive in Swift I keep coming back to it.