[grishka]

C++ has most of its complexity in the standard library, and that is easy enough to look up if you don't understand something. It's relatively barebones as far as the syntax goes. Swift, on the other hand, has way too many features a.k.a. syntactic sugar in the language itself.

[saagarjha]

Uh, no? Just parsing the language is undecidable, there's problems with "vexing parses" and strange overloads, there's like twenty seven ways to initialize things, there's new syntax every release to do something that has already existed in the language…

[ratww]

Exactly. The Most Vexing Parse is so popular it has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse