[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Just read the first couple of chapters in iBook. Free for the asking.

Simply genius. Makes C# look like a Cave Man.

[varmintman]

I’d sell shoes or used cars for 500 years before I’d ever touch an Apple programming language.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Looks like they just added a few features to make it easier to work with database queries.

Also more forced type checking, etc. which everyone wanted to get rid of a few years ago to eliminate all that typing, but now wish they hadn't gotten rid of because of all the errors that allowed for.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Time to put "3 Years of Swift Computer Language" on my resume.

[Vince Ferrer]

It isn’t that hard to make C# look like a Cave Man, but after just a few minutes perusing, I don’t see anything that much better than other languages. Is Apple’s Swift related to the parallel language Swift?

[BuckeyeTexan]

ping

[BuckeyeTexan]

Just like VB brought lots of people into the software world, Swift might allow people with a less technical skillset to write apps.

And that's where we want those amateurs. Leave the hard stuff to the big dogs.

[RJS1950]

Apple has always produced crapware, klunky and resource heavy.

Real code on real computers use C++ (and C#) but for real klunky and resource hogging it takes a Java app.

[ThunderSleeps]

Ohh boy, faster than Python!? Stop the presses... ;-)

[Lazamataz]

Apple is to Development Languages and Environments,

as

Nancy Pelosi is to Sanity.