I found this write-up hilarious.

I have been toying with the idea of experimenting with Swift under Linux myself for a while now. I guess this puts that idea to rest.

I'm not even talking about the illegal instruction thing or the capricious looking syntax changes. Just the fact that his hello world app caused 350MB of build artifacts in the filesystem, and the five minute build time for the project, are enough to turn me off of Swift.

I come from the good old Turbo Pascal under MS-DOS days. Building even complex applications took mere seconds on an 16 Mhz 80286 with 1 MB (yes, one megabyte) of RAM. I see no excuse for binaries to be big. This is turning me off of Go and Rust, too.

Gotta admire the cojones on those people to call their product "Swift".

I come from a time where the whole application fit into 512 KB RAM. It had to. And it was good that way, because the human brain can't grog that much context at the same time. Nowadays people are pulling in javascript frameworks larger than the whole payroll system of those old days without even a second thought.