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by penpapersw 3218 days ago
Yeah not saying Swift is simple. But its goal was originally (and may still be) to be Objective-C without the C.
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Nope. That was always an empty marketing slogan.

Objective-C is Smalltalk added to C. Objective-C without the C is Smalltalk. Which is, coincidentally, a very simple language.