I think the designers (Apple) have targeted a certain class of apps with Swift, XCode and the underlying libraries (Cocoa). A majority of their existing develop

I think the designers (Apple) have targeted a certain class of apps with Swift, XCode and the underlying libraries (Cocoa). A majority of their existing developer base will likely benefit from what they've done. But from the point of view of new developers and someone who's just trying to use the hardware in an effective way, this is not a step forward.