Swift takes the right approach in language ergonomics, many of its use cases would be much harder with explicit .clone() all over the place, lack of back references, no standard ABI for binary libraries, interop with Objective-C and C++, no standard concurrency runtime, or error handling types.

Rust 2026 roadmap has language ergonomics on it for a reason.

That said, outside Apple ecosystem you probably better with Rust, or if one has no GC issues, OCaml, Haskell, F#, Scala, C#.