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by autoreleasepool 3902 days ago
> Couldn't we have said the same thing about Objective-C with regard to C?

You do, in fact, have to learn enough C before you can learn Objective-C though. The smalltalk part of the language is completely bolted on top of C and you work with C APIs all the time in Cocoa development (even when you use Swift).