Why doesn't Apple try to make easier to learn and easier to use programming languages instead of focus on the more difficult ones like Objective-C?
Why not use BASIC, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, or even Pascal for their new language so you get more people to become developers and make iOS and OSX apps in greater numbers because it is easier?
Made a tool to convert Winforms to Cocoa Forms to port some Visual Studio C# and Visual BASIC apps to iOS and OSX, and win over the Windows-Only developers to the Apple platforms?
This Swift language seems so hard to learn, almost like F# or something. Not as hard as Haskell, but for the average developer it is going to be painful to learn.
Why doesn't Apple try to make easier to learn and easier to use programming languages instead of focus on the more difficult ones like Objective-C?
Why not use BASIC, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, or even Pascal for their new language so you get more people to become developers and make iOS and OSX apps in greater numbers because it is easier?
I mean they could have just used Monodevelop: http://monodevelop.com/
Made a tool to convert Winforms to Cocoa Forms to port some Visual Studio C# and Visual BASIC apps to iOS and OSX, and win over the Windows-Only developers to the Apple platforms?
This Swift language seems so hard to learn, almost like F# or something. Not as hard as Haskell, but for the average developer it is going to be painful to learn.