Helge Heß on Nostr: I think an advantage of #SwiftLang over say Rust is that you can port stuff ...

I think an advantage of #SwiftLang over say Rust is that you can port stuff incrementally, you don't have to go full-in from the start. You can start out w/ porting the classes and then go lower level step by step, temporarily living with an ugly half-bred.
The biggest issue is the lack of a GC, That would be useful even if it would be opt-in. It quite heavily affects the fundamental design of the software. Not having it in some form is a major drawback in Swift, IMO.