Swift is getting ownership/borrow checker mechanisms in Swift 6[1]. Kotlin and Swift have very similar ergonomics [2] (little outdated link).

Together with Actors types/Distributed runtimes, Optional Automatic Reference Counting and good support on Linux, Swift is developing into a killer language imo.

[1] https://forums.swift.org/t/a-roadmap-for-improving-swift-per...

[2] http://nilhcem.com/swift-is-like-kotlin/