This submission reminds me of "Satirical hacker news post"

""" The Muskonauts figured out why their shit exploded. Hackernews, literally all of whom are actual rocket scientists, wonders if unit tests could have helped. """

Also conveniently forgetting that Computer Scientists are yet to solve types <===> physical dimensions mapping in practical programming language.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dimensional

Similar for (roughly) "we ran one benchmark and can now say that swift is similar to java in performance and uses half the memory generally, for all things". No reference to the benchmark either.

Yeah, the Mars mission loss is also really well-worn at this point. I've heard this example in contexts ranging from cross-org communication, to software APIs, and unit checking (as in SI, USCS, etc.). Now I can add "language X is better than language Y" to that list!

What's worse is that the whole "story" wasn't even tied in to the rest of the talk. So basically, the guy spent 10 minutes talking about an interesting anecdote that had almost nothing to do with the rest of the talk.

Exactly. I'm a fan of Swift on the server, but this is the best they can do with marketing?