[saagarjha]

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle–Swift was not created in a vacuum, of course, but it does have to take Objective-C into account and thus we have the concepts of designated and convenience initializers, or implicitly unwrapped optionals. However, if you look at them more closely it's pretty clear they exist to bridge Objective-C to Swift concepts–fully initialize your objects before you use them, or annotate your code for nullability, which is where Swift wants you do go.