What are your thoughts on Swift vs Rust? I’ve used Rust and another engineer showed me guard let statements from Swift, which gave me the impression they had some of the same sensibilities.
Swift leans real hard into verbose method names, just like Objective C did, and Rust is pretty much the exact opposite there. When I was writing more Swift I got used to it, and actually started to like it. And now that I'm in Rust a lot, I like the brevity.
I think Rust nudges (forces?) me to write code that's architecturally better, with fewer interdependecies. It was hard to get used to though. In the beginning I kept trying to make structs that started threads, where the thread called methods on the struct, and that was just a recipe for big pain.
Swift, on the other hand, especially with the way the macOS and iOS frameworks are designed, relies a lot on MVC, delegates, and mutability, which gets hard to keep track of.
(I say this as someone who likes verbosity)
I was thinking more about the long method names which definitely do feel like they're carried over from ObjC. And then, a lot of those names are really more from the commonly-used frameworks than the language itself, so maybe it's not fair to say that "Swift" has those long names, but it does feel like the 99% use case for Swift is using those frameworks.
I think I agree that Swift felt like it needed less code to do a thing than ObjC would have, in a lot of cases.