I was excited and optimistic about transitioning to Swift in the Swift 3 days. By Swift 5 I was pining for Objective-C.

One of the arguments for switching to Swift was that it would be easier for new programmers. Now I think it's more of a barrier than Obj-C ever was.

I don't pine. I use.

Although more and more I am shifting to Objective-Smalltalk: https://objective.st