[biehl]

Lovely. My first question as a noob-not-even-osx-developer-yet is why not Swift? (my impression is that it is a quite recent project).

[swisspol]

Swift is still very young, constantly evolving, and simply not ready for big projects. Case in point: is there a single Apple app written in Swift yet?

This means that writing GitUp in Swift would be a ton of overhead for very little tangible benefit.

See examples of what well known Mac developers have to go through with Swift: http://inessential.com/swiftdiary. I'd rather spend my time on building the app rather than on dealing with Swift.