[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/2/2014 3:49 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:45:28 -0400, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> More information now made available
>>
>> https://developer.apple.com/swift/
>
> "Memory is managed automatically, and you don’t even need to type
> semi-colons."
>
> ...
>

Heh, yea, that's the #1 thing that jumped out at me as well. Sounds like 
it probably sums up a lot about the language.

The whole thing sounds like "We love how JS and Python allow mediocre 
programmers to churn out bad software quickly, but since we *are* Apple 
and love strategic lock-in just as much as MS, here's our own goofy 
version of the exact same thing that we're going to push instead."