[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 11:10:43 UTC, Dejan Lekic 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
>
> "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".

I kind of liked it back in 1999, when I had to port a Particle 
Engine from Objective-C/NeXT to C++/Windows.

However after so many languages in my toolbox, I would have to 
agree to the language's many warts.

--
Paulo