Isn’t this “high level rust” idea similar to swift?

Everything is ARC. Clones are cheap. But you still have a reasonable sound type system and no garbage collection.

I get it. Tooling on swift is meh the further you are from Apple, so I’m not suggesting it’s better.

But from a language point of view; is it not essentially a high level rust?

Ps. I don’t really know swift. Just asking where/why I’m wrong really.

The tooling is getting better and better, thankfully. Just recently they published their official VSCode extension on open-vsx for instance. It’s getting usable now!

It's not ARC though. They use fancy threading mechanisms to avoid having to check on every access. Much faster.