I'm not even an iOS developer but this is by far the most exciting thing I heard in the keynote.
As an amatuer/hobbyist programmer who's self-taught with Ruby, JavaScript, etc., the one thing that was keeping me from experimenting with iOS apps was Objective-C. I know I could tackle it, but it's been hard to take the plunge.
I don't know much about Swift yet, but from what I've seen it looks very exciting. So if Apple's goal was to get new devs into the iOS world, at least from 10k feet, it's working.
As an amatuer/hobbyist programmer who's self-taught with Ruby, JavaScript, etc., the one thing that was keeping me from experimenting with iOS apps was Objective-C. I know I could tackle it, but it's been hard to take the plunge.
I don't know much about Swift yet, but from what I've seen it looks very exciting. So if Apple's goal was to get new devs into the iOS world, at least from 10k feet, it's working.
I'm excited!