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I agree with this assessment. Swift has a lot of the things that make Rust nice to work with, but favors usability over performance while Rust does the reverse.

> Too bad that outside of iOS development it's still unusable.

Sub-optimal for sure, but not unusable. It's being used in production on the server in several instances.



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