I think Indie Game: The Movie and being an early programming streamer built up an audience that holds a strong and inflated sense of veneration for him. Honestly, even stranger is having Carmack with Linus, it feels odd to compare them when you could at least include Abrash, Silverman, etc, instead.

I measure all of my code in meters

Amazing work!

When starting to look into embedded Rust I was actually surprised they were the only ones really doing official support, this is great.

It's always been frustrating being an Apple user due to the numerous platform changes because a lot of your software just stops working compared to Windows. It would have been incredible for them to instead add MORE support for older platforms, not take it away, but this is how they handle change...

This is super cool, I've always been curious how smaller dev houses worked by correspondence during this period. Presumably the feedback cycle wasn't fast, was it ever frustrating at times?

There are definitely some high quality sites out there that I have paid subs for, but most of the time it's creating things with SwiftUI and concurrency is coincidental. I think there is clearly a market for things like covering Swift Concurrency in-depth because who else is really doing it?

In general I think there is a lack of general-purpose programming educational content for Swift. I am probably in the very tiny minority of non-app developers playing with it for things cross-platform tooling (including Windows) or gamedev, but finding high quality content that isn't apps is hard.