Exactly. In either case there's nearly 30 years of libraries to learn to be effective on Apple platforms. (Significant traces of work done at NeXT remain, which

Exactly. In either case there's nearly 30 years of libraries to learn to be effective on Apple platforms. (Significant traces of work done at NeXT remain, which started in the mid-80s, I believe.) The language itself is the least of your worries. That said, I am excited about Swift because the hardest part of teaching new developers to work on Apple platforms is the fact that you need to understand C to write Objective-C.