Swift Project in 2023

I am fascinated by how the general community perceives swift. The PL theory community seems to appreciate its innovations, while the (online) dev community sees it as Apple&#x27;s own C#.<p>Ultimately, I think Swift is a hugely underrated language, mainly because of outdated criticism.

I&#x27;ve very anxiously awaiting Swift on Server&#x27;s development&#x2F;maturity. My love for Scala&#x2F;Akka (especially with the latest licensing changes) could potentially be replaced if they nail Distributed Actors.

Does this documentation workgroup focus also extend to the documentation of Apple APIs? The pessimist in me thinks no, but I&#x27;m hoping to be wrong.

I really hope they make some changes to the Swift language to make it quicker to compile.<p>I never again want to see: “Expression was too complex to be solved in reasonable time; consider breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;33794574&#x2F;swift-expression-was-too-complex-to-be-solved-in-reasonable-time?rq=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;33794574&#x2F;swift-expressio...</a><p>For a dumb example see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.swift.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;why-is-swift-so-slow-timeout-in-compiling-this-code&#x2F;61382" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.swift.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;why-is-swift-so-slow-timeout-in-c...</a><p>That said I do enjoy the language.

Glad to see they are still working on differentiable Swift.

Better AWS Lambda support would be nice. There is a runtime by the server workgroup but afaik it requires docker as an intermediate for compilation.<p>If would be awesome if the cross compilation support is as good as it is in Go such that you could build your lambda executable with `GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o main main.go`.

Apple has its own better Rust now<p>Swift:<p>- Servers<p>- OS<p>- Apps with a wonderful SwiftUI framework<p>- C++ Interop<p>- Ownership model<p>- Crossplatform

Oh man, variadic generics.<p>I hope the hope they do on that feature inspires Rust to follow suit. This is a <i>game-changer</i> in terms of expressiveness.

Any website to follow who&#x27;s doing extensive Linux programming with Swift and writing about it?