“Swift is the only language I could find with over 100 keywords”

I don't think this is fair to Swift. Swift seems to have taken a view that the langauge will force you to be explicit about what you want. For example, the "indirect" keyword. Early Swift did not let you have recursive enums, apparently this can be something of a performance killer I guess was the reasoning. However they are really useful, so Swift added them. However rather than just automatically using an indirect Enum which is easily detectible, Swift forces you to use the "indirect" keyword. Rather than implicitly doing work for you, the Swift compiler stops to ask "are you sure this is what you really want to do? Do you understand the tradeoffs you are making?"

Personally I'm a fan of the Swift approach even if it does balloon the keyword count a bit.

And yet code in Swift is much cleaner than anything in Javascript. I say that having mostly written Swift & Javascript at my jobs and on the side.

Depending on how you count keywords, SQL has over 400. See https://github.com/ballista-compute/sqlparser-rs/blob/main/s... .

SQLite has 147 keywords - https://www.sqlite.org/lang_keywords.html .

I count 417 reserved words at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/9.1?topic=words-cobol-reserv... .

I see there's "ZERO", "ZEROES", and "ZEROS" - I didn't realize that both plurals are acceptable in English! - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3824/what-is-the... .

My favorite reserved word on that list is "KANJI". From https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/4.2?topic=expressions-... :

> The class condition determines whether the content of a data item is alphabetic, alphabetic-lower, alphabetic-upper, numeric, DBCS, KANJI, or contains only the characters in the set of characters specified by the CLASS clause as defined in the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph of the environment division.