[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[Brad Anderson 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

It appears they still have aways to go with the ARC
implementation: http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798

HN discussion: http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798

It's going to be very interesting to see how good they can get it
though. As far as I know, Apple has the most experience with ARC
and they certainly have the brainpower to push it to its limits.