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Swift is a multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created by Apple for iOS and OS X development. It has been announced that Swift will be open source later in 2015.

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A modern C-like language

This language will is the successor to Objective-C, it's modern and easy to learn.

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Open source

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Garrett Oreilly

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Easily accessible to anyone with an iPad or a Mac

Swift can be learned on an iPad in Swift Playgrounds or on a Mac in Xcode. Apple provides a full curriculum for learning Swift and learning to create iOS apps using Swift. This makes it ideal for adoption in education by schools.

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Tries to help developers

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Weird syntax that can't be understood by experienced programmers

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Extremely young language

Swift was released in 2014. Though it's quickly increasing in popularity, it's still not a commonly used language.

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