Seems lovely but headed in a Scala-like bloated direction. The "too complex" type issues were really bad last I tried.

And one of my biggest gripes is the way you can extend things from anywhere else, easy to cause a mess.

Swift is getting out of hand after Chris left and Swift UI was introduced. The language has over 210 keywords… thats crazy

Keywords are a bad way to judge a language.

Not saying you are wrong but tell me why it would be a good idea to have hundreds of keywords for a programming language.

Because not having hundreds of keywords means that either you have some parts of the language that are "this has a special meaning please don't touch" (double underscores are good enough, right guys?) or "we reassigned 10 different things to the same keyword to keep the number low" (ahem, static).

Hm, I have to admit I have the same feeling.

But it is a shame, because many of the ideas are good imho.

I’ve spent some time looking into swift as well and was quite pleased with the overall language, it really contained some really good ideas. This makes it a bit of a shame that it is tied so closely to Apple