Kids need to start with small, quick successes before they are willing to invest more time. The Playground weighs in Swift's favor because they can get immediat

Kids need to start with small, quick successes before they are willing to invest more time. The Playground weighs in Swift's favor because they can get immediate feedback. As for the language itself, it seems to have decent type-inferencing. So, kids won't get bogged down on a compiler not liking "String" vs. "string". To really capture kids' imaginations, Apple needs to visual and auditory libraries loaded and ready to go in the Playground. Kids will immediate want to build something graphical or auditory. It's an interesting experiment.