On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 17:18:11 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Apple is stating that Swift is a C replacement ("Swift is a successor to the C and Objective-C languages." - https://developer.apple.com/swift/).
"Swift is an innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch." and "Swift is a successor to the C and Objective-C languages. It includes low-level primitives such as types, flow control, and operators." Yes, that's low level!
Swift is Objective-C in a new dress, but not a system level programming language (and neither is Objective-C IMHO). It is an application level language for Cocoa frameworks.
