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I haven’t had a chance to fully explore the new features and there are probably still some sharp edges, but the addition of non-copyable types and borrowing/consuming bindings in Swift 5.9 should bring it a lot closer to Rust in those respects, especially the hermeticity aspect. If you haven’t experimented recently, might be worth doing - this is also one of the big focuses of the language in the near term, so there should be lots more progress coming too.


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