> Learning Swift really isn't a big deal. Often I feel that learning a new language is more like learning a local dialect or slang than a truly new language. S

> Learning Swift really isn't a big deal. Often I feel that learning a new language is more like learning a local dialect or slang than a truly new language. Some languages are very different, but I'd wager that if you're looking to learn swift you've probably worked with another very similar language before. Sure there'll be some stumbling blocks, but you can get to a point of "this works, but probably isn't the best or fastest way for this language" fairly quickly by trying things and copy-pasting errors into google. > If you need to learn something that might not be permanently useful: so what? Indeed, and unless it's a really poor language you'll probably take something useful away from it. Maybe it'll be a language-feature that saves a lot of boilerplate that makes you wonder if you can implement in your own favourite language. Maybe it'll be an awesome package manager or module structure. Maybe it'll just be fun or make you think more about how different approaches work for different situations.