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I wouldn't consider Rust to fall in this category to be honest, as there are plenty of issues/RFCs where people were bike shedding for months or even years.

To be honest Rust has some of the most beautifully painted bikesheds I've seen.

I think Rust does a _ton_ of bikeshedding. Here is one example[0] showing how much of a discussion is required for a relatively simple QoL feature.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/62358

Looks like that one devolved a bit into a flamewar. I'm not sure it's representative of the average feature proposal.

And it looks to me like it was resolved pretty professionally.

I'd argue that if Swift isn't more popular, it is certainly more visible than Rust. And probably just more popular.

Apple's marketing around Swift advertises the "open source" aspect, and there's a lot of money to be made making iOS apps, so there's naturally going to be a lot of noise around proposals/developments.