“Wil Shipley, a developer whose association with Apple began with a contract for NeXT, has posted two tweets in praise of Swift shortly after Apple’s ‘significant update’ to the programming language,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac.
“Shipley says he feels the same way about Swift that he did when he first saw Cocoa on the NeXT platform, and that Objective-C is a ‘crapshack’ of a language in comparison,” Lovejoy reports. “The developer co-founded The Omni Group in 1991, one of the few companies to create apps for NeXT and eventually OS X.”
“He won a record five Apple Design Awards while at Omni, winning three more at the second company he founded, Delicious Monster,” Lovejoy reports. “All of Delicious Monster’s other staff were later hired by Apple.”
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