In an easy to read blog post, Kevin McNeish tells us the "8 Reasons Swift is Easier to Learn & Use than Objective-C": 1. Classes are Defined in a Single File 2. No More Square Brackets for Messages 3. The End of the Asterisk 4. No More Messages to Null Objects 5. Importing Just Got Easier 6. Alloc and Init are No More! 7. Easier Coding of Switch-Case-Break statements 8. Easier String Manipulation Read the details of each item at http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/eight-things-love-about-swift It's these little tidbits that make the nudge-to-Swift be more palatable. -- Niraj

What is Swift?

Thanks Niraj.............. One reason Buzztouch is easier than Objective-C AND Swift 1. I don't have to learn either language, the great people of Buzztouch do it for me. ;-) Dave P.S. Thanks Niraj for the Swift cheat sheet you posted earlier!

String manipulation ftw!

I guess I'm going to need 10 reasons... ;) Cheers! -- Smug

9. First letter (S) matches your Nickname's 1st syllable 10. Second letter (w) matches your Nickname's 2nd syllable Come on in, the water's fine! :-) -- Niraj

Will objective c still be supported?

Apple claims that objective c and swift will work side by side. I compiled and launched in a simulator one of my Buzztouch projects with no problems. Xcode 6 only works with iOS 7 and above though. Dave

Typical apple and I just dont understand it. So if you upgrade to xcode 6 - which as a developer you would want to, you dramatically reduce your target audience by only being able to target those with ios7. I assume this is a way apple can 'force' the consumer to upgrade - which you cant do on an old device - hence you are 'forced' to buy a new one. This will start to annoy those that arent aware of how apple work - such as the need to upgrade your mac when developing first came out from ppc to intel - and i'm sure soon my quad core imac will not load the osx and the latest xcode will require that osx! This is not a rant - apple has got away with this for a while. however, i think people could well get fed up and flee to android. Does anyone know where we can find the stats for number of people running which ios? Could be interesting.

Apple claims that 89% of iOS users are using ios 7

Blimey that's high

that last reply is funny!