"Liking" is irrelevant to me. I do use it thoroughly though – I have written Linux containers (web apps) as well as native macOS and iOS apps. I am end-product creator and want my ideas to become end-user products and see the light of day. Delivery is everything.

Swift offers convincing ease for writing abstractions that underpin the app layer. You can be as clever or as simple as you wish, it's up to you. I prefer to keep it simple.

The other huge win for me is its ability to combine multiple language codebases at the SOURCE CODE LEVEL under a single project umbrella. Many of my projects use a mix of:

  - Swift
  - C++
  - C

Compile time is really fast for me with Swift 6 onwards.

I use Xcode (and I am fine with it, it compiles really fast in year 2025) or VSCode (with Swift plugin) — both achieve the same thing in my experience.

Want to build a Docker Linux container? Very simple too. I fine tune and debug the project on dev macOS machine then use a Docker Linux container to build it for Linux (on a Mac or Linux) and deploy the binary. It's a single binary file by default, all libs inside. Then copy it to my NAS or deploy to remote Linux server and enjoy the speed.

Low friction, easy abstraction, fast delivery and binary machine code executable. That's what speaks to me.