Apple dropped a huge surprise at WWDC on Monday, as it announced_that it’s built a new programming language for iOS and OS X called Swift. The new language — which is in beta_until iOS 8 is released_–_is Apple’s replacement for Objective-C and the company explained its big decision to developers by claiming it is much faster and easier to use. Apple isn’t taking away support for the old language and applications can actually have_codebases that contain both_Swift and Objective-C happily. Feedback on Twitter has been mixed, with many praising Apple for dropping the aging Objective-C (it’s over 20 years old)...

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