You are right, but I really want to be optimistic here. The moment the language is stable and officially released this fall, I am expecting Apple to give a "Swi

You are right, but I really want to be optimistic here. The moment the language is stable and officially released this fall, I am expecting Apple to give a "Swift treating" to its entire toolchain, including the APIs written in Objective-C and C. This won't happen in a couple of days, obviously, more in a couple of years or even more. But we SHOULD expect this, sooner or later, otherwise Apple will be stuck to support Objective-C for long. The whole point of Swift is to make the entire development endeavor easier, thus Objective-C should eventually become deprecated. This can happen only when the APIs are rewritten from scratch in Swift, something that will take a lot of time. (do not worry, even if Objective-C becomes deprecated, we should expect at least 5-10 years before it becomes completely outdated to the point that Apple drops it entirely)