Completely agree with @nbashaw. I come from a web-dev background (Ruby/JS/etc) and have wanted to learn iOS for awhile but have always been intimidated and turned off by Obj-C.
Having skimmed through the Swift iBook, I'm already quite impressed. Feels a lot more welcoming and easy to transition to from Ruby.
I tried to learn Obj-C last fall (coming from a Ruby / Javascript background) and it was horrible. Everything that used to be easy was suddenly hard. This seems to solve that problem. Should open up native app development to a whole new segment of beginner-coders like me
Keen to give it a go and see how it compares to C#. I've never tried objective-C but heard bad things and I can imagine learning it killed many people's initial enthusiasm to get coding and making apps so this can only be a good thing.
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This could reignite the passion for would-be coders to learn this particular language instead of get bogged down in the minutia of which language to learn. Although it's rebranded as a new language it sounds like it's kind of a heavily updated/optimized version of objective C. (obviously with some new syntax and all)
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