Good that they work on it. And the efforts to refactor foundation into smaller modules go in the same direction.

I continue to root for them but they need so many improvments to be a realistic alternative to python/typescript/go/java for regular backend development.

At least in my field where we need to sure that other developers can continue the development without much hassle.

Just as an example, with those languages it's almost trivial to setup a basic projekt with dependencies. In swift however, it takes careful reading ot the swift package manager documentation to understand their concept of "products", "targets", etc. And I'm pretty sure i'd have to start from zero when i use swift for the advent of code in a few days.

There are many problems with devepdencies in Python, or package.json/gradle files. But at least they are (almost) foolproof to get started.