| >Unfortunately Swift is a dud.... Because of some technical argument, or just personal aesthetics? >I have said, Swift is to Objective-C, what Scala is to Java. Sure, there are plenty of people that like Scala, but its 'academic stuffiness and complexity' doomed it to a niche language. While Objective-C was really cool, it was neither modern enough, and few people liked it (mostly old NeXT/early OS X guys, but not most of the iOS crowds). And Swift is easy to use and nothing like Scala in academic-ness and complexity. >All I wanted is a Python look alike, with some solid static typing* That's not what the ecosystem needed, or what people in general want (there's Go for that, for one). Swift is somewhere between Rust and Kotlin, features wise. |