I read the transcript but at the end I wished they had touched upon some comparisons of Swift with C# and the open sourcing of the .NET platform by Microsoft. Craig's/Apple's comments on that would be interesting now that C# and .NET are also becoming truly cross platform (unlike the Mono platform that lagged behind), which is something Swift also aims to be, although we don't know what frameworks and libraries from Apple would or could become cross platform.
Also, C# and .NET have had longer than a decade to become what they are today. It would've been interesting to hear more details on what lessons and developments from the last decade and a half helped accelerate the development of Swift (not just from C#.NET, but also other languages and programming paradigms).
Chris Lattner's page [0] just mentions a one liner saying "...it also greatly benefited from the experiences hard-won by many other languages in the field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list."
A geeky interview with Chris Lattner might be the next thing to look forward to on this topic. :)
Also, C# and .NET have had longer than a decade to become what they are today. It would've been interesting to hear more details on what lessons and developments from the last decade and a half helped accelerate the development of Swift (not just from C#.NET, but also other languages and programming paradigms).
Chris Lattner's page [0] just mentions a one liner saying "...it also greatly benefited from the experiences hard-won by many other languages in the field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list."
A geeky interview with Chris Lattner might be the next thing to look forward to on this topic. :)
[0]: http://nondot.org/sabre/