I think swift is a really great language from the design perspective.

What makes it unusable outside the apple ecosystem imho is that while the C interop is amazing on paper, it sucks hard in practice due to the abomination of pointer types they build in.

The "all pointers are evil" attitude doesn't help when you want to use a C library and noone will write rewrite all these libraries.

> Nobody apparently believes that capital is worth investing into anything but AI.

This is the main reason we see this insane investment into AI imo. If you imagine having lots of money, where should you invest that currently?

Housing market: Seems very overvalued (at least in germany). Also with the current uncertainty and inflation its hard to make an investment that pays back over 20-30 years. So building is also difficult.

Stocks are very volatile currently. Not only since Iran. To me it seems since the financial crisis 2008 investors don't enjoy stocks as before.

Gold: Only if you are paranoid about collapse of society. It doesn't make sense to invest into s.th. without interest rates.

Crypto: Same as gold, but better if you like gamling. I would assume most people who are very rich don't gamble with most of their fortune.