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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by Apocryphon on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:46PM (#30434331)
To be fair, while Swift includes nice convenience methods for strings, the new API comes with a considerable cost:

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-11-06-why-is-s...

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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by Grustaf on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:09PM (#30435725)
That article is from 2015. A lot has changed, though some people still complain.
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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by Apocryphon on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:12PM (#30435754)
Doubtful that the technical underpinnings of the API have changed all that much since 2015.
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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by saagarjha on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:02AM (#30439536)
They very much have.
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