Reading through the top level comments, they are all a form of surface level aversion to the unfamiliar. It really highlights that many industry trends are based on hot takes and not any sort of deep analysis. This makes sense why Javascript and C++ will remain as entrenched favorites despite their technical flaws.
For those who actually spent time with Swift, and realize its value and potential, consider yourself lucky that large portions of the industry have an ill informed aversion to it. That creates opportunity that can be taken advantage of in the next 5 years. Developers who invest in Swift early can become market leaders, or run circles around teams struggling with slowness of python, over-complexity of c++.
Top three comments paraphrased:
> 1) "huh? Foundation?"
but you have no qualms with `if __name__ == "__main__"` ?
> 2) "The name is pretentious"
is that an example of the well-substantiated and deep technical analysis HN is famous for?
> 3) Swift is "a bit verbose and heavy handed" so Google FAILED by not making yet another language.
For those who actually spent time with Swift, and realize its value and potential, consider yourself lucky that large portions of the industry have an ill informed aversion to it. That creates opportunity that can be taken advantage of in the next 5 years. Developers who invest in Swift early can become market leaders, or run circles around teams struggling with slowness of python, over-complexity of c++.
Top three comments paraphrased:
> 1) "huh? Foundation?"
but you have no qualms with `if __name__ == "__main__"` ?
> 2) "The name is pretentious"
is that an example of the well-substantiated and deep technical analysis HN is famous for?
> 3) Swift is "a bit verbose and heavy handed" so Google FAILED by not making yet another language.