A programmer's view of Apple's new Swift language | VentureBeat | Dev | by Richard Byrne Reilly
Objective-C is great and really powerful. It has served Apple well for a really long time. It’s older than the web though. It is pretty awkward to learn – especially for someone new to programming.

No real plans to change to Swift here, but Metal is definitely on the whiteboard. Of course, at same time, love them tuples and other innovative new language features (Yay! I watched the Advanced Swift WWDC talk). And I will much enjoy watching new programmers getting very confused over the difference between structs and classes.

I will use Swift for small tasks. Although I suppose if I'm going to learn a new language it might as well be C#. That mono runtime is really slutty.

Although I do think there are some merits to eliminating header files (Modula-2 "Interface"), I think it would be good to have an option. Really the last thing I want to do when studying a module's interface is read implementation details.

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