[pjmlp]

Well, this is Apple's official point of view on Swift's purpose.

> Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages. It includes low-level primitives such as types, flow control, and operators. It also provides object-oriented features such as classes, protocols, and generics, giving Cocoa and Cocoa Touch developers the performance and power they demand.

Taken from https://developer.apple.com/swift/

> Swift is intended as a replacement for C-based languages (C, C++, and Objective-C).

Taken from https://swift.org/about/

[wool_gather]

Yes, good point, thanks. But this is not quite what I was intending to say. The character of Swift is not very C- or ObjC-like. C's philosophy is largely (to borrow from Python) "we are all consenting adults here": raw flexibility is the name of the game. ObjC's class system is famously late-binding and runtime-malleable, and it carries all the flexibility of C. These are things that Swift eschews.