[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.

[Lazamataz]

Apps are good places to store bad developers.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The only problem with the original VB was OO support.

When VB.Net came out I went to C# since I did C for years.

I use neither now.

Digging into the details of Swift it turns out to be insanely robust with a lot of choices to accomplish a project.

I don’t like the ‘let’ much. That’s why the analogy to Basic comes from but that’s about all there is in common.