Uh oh, about to get into an argument over terms that have no precise definition, but I believe that in the context of Objective-C vs. Swift, Objective-C is perf

Uh oh, about to get into an argument over terms that have no precise definition, but I believe that in the context of Objective-C vs. Swift, Objective-C is perfectly fair to be considered weakly typed. In fact I think that in the context of Objective-C vs. most other typed languages it is perfectly fair to consider Objective-C weakly typed, especially when the dominant culture involved using id everywhere and since generics were only added very late in the language so your base collection classes were all weakly typed for 99% of the life of the language. I'd find it really eyebrow-raising for someone to not consider Objective-C "more weakly typed" than Swift, or do you think that Swift did not introduce a culture of stronger typing? But I digress: regardless of whether syntax is trivial or not, my point is that I believe wanting to have a clear break from a syntactic perspective with a language that was plagued as being "different looking" for its entire life was probably a goal in the creation of a new language. Do you really not remember pre-Swift where "Objective-C is weird looking" was an actual argument people would make? Objective-C could have been made more safe, it could not however have its syntax drastically altered without considering it a new language.