[josephg]

I hear you. I'm really hoping that Swift improves over the next few years. It seems to be in a great sweet spot with many of the modern language features of Rust (optional / result types, parametric enums, try, generics, static compilation, etc). But it also has the ergonomics of a language like Go thats explicitly designed for writing practical code and just getting work done.

Swift is still missing decent async / await support, generators and promises. Some of this stuff can be written by library authors, but doing so fragments the ecosystem. Its also still harder than it should be to write & run swift code on non-mac platforms. And its also not as fast as it could be. I've heard some reports of swift programs spending 60% of their time incrementing and decrementing reference counts. Apparently optimizations are coming. I can't wait - its my favorite of the current crop of new languages. I think it strikes a nice balance between being fancy and being easy of use. But it really needs some more love before its quite ready for me to use it as a daily workhorse for http servers and games.