The basic problem of Swift

[xwu (Xiaodi Wu)]

@ubu

Eliminate any syntax that is "too clever by half". If you spend 6 months away from Swift and come back to it, much of its syntax is arcane and only shared with some unpopular languages. Eliminate anything that is arcane and unintuitive. People are writing bad Swift code because they don't understand the syntax and concepts. Make optionals optional i.e. they shouldn't be required. I think a lot of the promise of Swift has been wasted by people making it so arcane.

You’re are certainly entitled to your opinions, but significant changes to the syntax are not within the scope of Swift’s evolution at this stage.

You can learn more about the roadmap to Swift 6 here:

On the road to Swift 6

The Swift project has achieved a critical milestone of maturity of the core fundamentals, providing stability for users to invest in using Swift in earnest. On Apple's platforms such as macOS and iOS, the arrival of ABI and module stability has enabled the creation of stable binary frameworks. Further, the Swift Package Manager, which has integrated support both in Xcode and other IDEs, provides a cross-platform solution for building and distributing Swift libraries. Put together, these form …

For more on Swift’s evolution process, see this document.