[Osmium]

> We spent 10 minutes getting the room set up with their cocoapods

Cocoapods with Swift support is still in beta. You'll probably have a better experience once it's been officially released.

> Lots of "crashes" in the IDE while writing swift code, where the compiler would bomb out and syntax highlighting etc. would be disabled while it sorted itself out again.

Likewise for this; Xcode is a much better IDE for Objective-C than it is for Swift at the moment, but it is improving (a new beta of Swift 1.2 + Xcode has just been released that fixes a lot of problems).

[pionar]

XCode is a horrible IDE for any language.

[hutattedonmyarm]

I think it has improved a lot in the last years,to the point where it'S actually pretty good