On: Introducing Swift

[api]

So they copied this idea for the IDE?

http://www.lighttable.com

[judofyr → api]

Well, LightTable was inspired by Bret Victor's ideas. He worked at Apple earlier.

[Alphasite_ → api]

Seems a lot more like a call back to the Smalltalk roots of Objective-C.

[xendo → api]

I think they were thinking about this even earlier: http://vimeo.com/36579366

[enen → api]

I cannot be any happier that they did.

[rawland → api]

Was my very first thought, too. The next thought was Bret Victor. Yeah.