A screenshot of some Objective-C code. It is about 30 lines longThe syntax highlighting shows it as very dense with keywords, and there is also a lot of punctuation.

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   Ben Cohen (airspeedswift@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:57:35 JST Ben Cohen

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   Now I'm fully aware that there are plenty of people who still believe this code is better than Swift. But at this point I think they're a tiny minority.

   This screenshot demonstrates to me the fundamental core of why Swift strives to be a low-ceremony language. Not because all the ceremony shown here is a hassle remember or type, though it is.

   It's that the ceremony drowns out the core of what the code is trying to express: the business logic that is the actually important part.