[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d]

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

"Thank God!!" I told my colleagues today when they told me about 
it. Swift is like 10x better langauge than that abomination 
called "Objective-C".