Apple today announced a new programming language called Swift at WWDC today, which will replace Objective C as the language developers use for building iOS apps. Craig_Federighi announced the new language on stage, saying that the company built it after wondering “what we could do without the baggage of C.” Federighi did confirm that Swift code and C can live in the same iOS app together, too, so developers can upgrade their code as they go. There are a number of changes from Objective C, some of which detailed in the slides below, but Apple demoed just how much less...

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