IMO this doesn't effect small business with revenue as much as it hurts their spending of marketing with facebook there are other marketing avenues that can be used by small businesses
Space is controlled by nations and their military so I don't see why there will not be conflicts and escalations. Only way to prevent war in space is humans not going to space.
don't know about swift but any JVM based language will have more productivity in IDE than vim. I have tried really hard to use vim for java and the trouble is not worth it. But for everything else vim is your guy.