[gbanfalvi]

I would absolutely not call Rust a simpler Swift. Swift doesn't have and ownership/borrowing system, explicit lifetime for objects, much more expressive (and therefore complex) macro support...

I get that there's a tradeoff. Rust requires you to be way more explicit about what you're intending upfront and that can, in the long term, lead to simpler code -- but there's no dimension (depth-wise or breadth-wise) that I'd call Rust simpler.

[mojuba]

> I would absolutely not call Rust a simpler Swift. Swift doesn't have and ownership/borrowing system

Swift already does have those things but unlike Rust, they are opt-in.

Not going to argue which language is simpler, but sorry, you don't seem like someone who knows Swift very well.

[needlesslygrim]

While Swift now has the `borrowing` and `consuming` keywords, support for storing references is nonexistent, and the only way to return/store `Span`s, etc, is only possible through using experimental `@lifetime` annotations.

Swift is a nice language, and it's new support for the bare necessity of affine types is a good step forward, but it's not at all comparable with Rust.