Apple announces full Swift rewrite of the Foundation framework (2022)
Is there anything genuinely innovative about Swift or is it just another "cross-platform scripting language" that I'll only see on 1 platform?<p>The only reason I learned Powershell is because I have to admin for Windows.  At least Powershell is interesting for its pipeline and object handling.  I get not one spark of joy from Swift, and the comments I see are "at least we're not writing C anymore".  Stockholm syndrome.<p>Sorry this is so negative, but I can't get excited about $NewLanguage unless I know it offers real benefit.  I have drunk the Rust koolaid, and for very good reasons.  What am I missing in Swift?