These days I mainly write Rust but I did write a semi complex iOS app and enjoyed Swift. I just didn't love how slow the type checker was and how it got lost. I recall having to break things into smaller bits to help the compiler, and there were some oddities about the language.

The gap between the two languages is quite small, it just makes me wish Apple was also all-in on Rust

In the last year they’ve added improvements to the type checker to speed it up, those would have been released now.

They have further and much more significant changes that I think might have recently landed in the development version. That should make an even bigger difference. But it’s not in a released version yet.

And yes, none of us like that one part of Swift. Especially the DRASTIC difference compared to objective-C which really only checked syntax and little else.

It’s still probably my favorite language right now though I don’t get to write in it much.

maybe so on the surface, but it remains quite massive underneath; these languages are fundamentally different and target entirely different use cases