“Of all the speculation about what Apple would announce at WWDC, no one expected a new programming language,” Michael E. Cohen writes for TidBITS.
“The developers in the keynote audience reacted to Swift’s unveiling with surprise and delight, and developer response since then has been largely, if not unreservedly, positive,” Cohen writes. “One developer has pointed out to us that the most positive responses that he’s seen tend to come from programmers who are active users of Objective-C, currently the programming language of choice for apps on Apple’s platforms; those less steeped in Objective-C development projects are somewhat more skeptical.”
“Not that Swift won’t have an impact on how you work and play with your Mac, but Swift’s impact will be… depend on how many developers adopt Swift and what they develop when they do adopt it,” Cohen writes. “On June 1st, nobody outside of Apple had heard of Swift. Twenty-four hours later, tens of thousands of developers were buzzing about what they planned to do with it. Change comes swiftly these days.”
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