Comment by Buttons840

I appreciate the details.

Ultimately I'm not dissuaded from my original impression.

I worked at a company doing web scraping, and our code sucked and we knew it, and the lead programmer kind of liked Elixir, and we were always going to rewrite in Elixir one day, and he would mention it in interviews and stuff, and put it on job requirements, but really there was almost no Elixir in the company. We came up with all sorts of reasons Elixir would make sense technically, I even offered some myself because I got positive social feedback when I spoke well of Elixir. But now that I'm out of the company, I can see that Elixir is not uniquely suited to solve the problems we had. It was just one guy liked Elixir and so ultimately we all did.

I still predict the same for LadyBird. You can even see in the Tweet I linked that they choose C++ because of one person, so I'm guessing that one person also likes Swift. Time will tell.