It's less beginner-proof, and more "doing bad things proof". The purpose of releasing Swift as open source is that they don't want it to be an Apple language. I

It's less beginner-proof, and more "doing bad things proof". The purpose of releasing Swift as open source is that they don't want it to be an Apple language. I can't wait for it to replace Python for scripting - I dread every time I'm writing code without a competent type system. > be paid up on fees This isn't true anymore, FWIW. Also, OS X apps exist.