Comment by jonhohle

The more I use Swift, the more I miss Objective-C. I tend to like opinionated languages that take firm stances - all method calls are messages, everything really is an object, fail early, etc.

Swift seems to be more and more a kitchen sink language. Compile time linking, v-tables, and dynamic dispatch? Sure! There’s so much syntactic sugar masking seemingly unchangeable implementation details (throws/try/catch) and odd implementation choices (protocols associated types vs structs and classes generics). Builder methods are just plain weird, imho.

I had a lot of hope for Swift early on, but it seems like a rudderless ship.