[Apocryphon]

To be fair, while Swift includes nice convenience methods for strings, the new API comes with a considerable cost:

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-11-06-why-is-s...

[Grustaf]

That article is from 2015. A lot has changed, though some people still complain.

[Apocryphon]

Doubtful that the technical underpinnings of the API have changed all that much since 2015.

[saagarjha]

They very much have.