Comment by dimatura

About 5-6 years ago, I worked a fair bit on an iOS app, primarily in swift (there were some obj-c and C++ bits). Until then, 90% of what I had written was either C++ or python on Linux, and I had never worked on a mobile app and had barely used MacOS (or iOS for that matter, I've always had android phones). From that experience I had an unexpectedly favorable impression of the swift language. I thought the ergonomics of the typing system and error handling compared quite favorably to C++, with better performance and safety compared to python. I didn't really like the Apple frameworks though, it felt like they were always making new ones and the documentation was surprisingly poor. Nor did I really gel with XCode (which is virtually a requisite for iOS development) or MacOS itself. But I actually liked swift enough that I give it a try outside of ios for a few test apps. Unfortunately, at the time swift outside iOS wasn't really mature and there wasn't much of an ecosystem. Not sure how much that has changed, but these days I'd probably reach for rust instead.