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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.
It is mentioned in this overview.
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Pros
Pro A modern C-like language
This language will is the successor to Objective-C, it's modern and easy to learn.
Pro 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.
Pro Uses LLVM compiler and Obj-C runtime allowing C, Objective-C, Objective-C++ and Swift code to run side by side within a single program
Pro Swift has some clever tricks up its sleeve
Due to having elements of a functional programming language. Things like 'map' and 'filter' for example.
Cons
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Out of Date Pros + Cons
Con 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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