[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

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On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 19:45:29 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 19:19:27 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Just thought it would be nice to give a heads up about Apple's 
>> plans to replace Objective-C in the long run.
>>
>> The language was presented today at the WWDC Keynote, looks 
>> like Ruby, uses ARC alongside the Objective-C runtime.
>>
>> http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-wwdc-2014-keynote/
>>
>> It also has a nice REPL experience, similar to Python's 
>> worksheets in IPython.
>>
>> --
>> Paulo
>
> More information now made available
>
> https://developer.apple.com/swift/

- "Closures unified with function pointers"
- "Tuples and multiple return values"

Sounds pretty neat, but I can't stand that horrid opening brace 
placement. It's something I really hate about Scala as well.

balloonConfigurator = { b in
     //...
}