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by matthewmacleod 3697 days ago
Don't get me wrong – I'm a big fan of Objective C, and I think it gets a far harder time than it deserves.

That said, Swift feels similar while being more productive:

- Lots of nice syntactic sugar to reduce noise - Optionals (and chained calls) which do much the same - Type inference! - A REPL. Pretty amazing. - Bounds checking

lots more nice features too.