Swift

Swift took us all by surprise at this year's WWDC, including many of Apple's employees. A successor to Objective C had been discussed for almost a decade, yet people still expressed dissapointment that what Apple revealed was not the Objective C 3.0 that they had hoped for, but something altogether more ambitious.

At the point of the announement I had been teaching myself iOS development with Objective C for almost 6 months, so I was a bit hesitant to switch to Swift as I felt I was throwing away all that hard work. In reality of course there is a lot more to development than just the language, but switching to Swift would require more than just learning a new syntax.

Still, I was excited to try Swift and immediately began trying Xcode's playgrounds, and reading everything I could about it. I followed the development of the language with interest, but it was clear with each Xcode beta release that the large changes to the language, and no guarantees of source compatibilty, would make it difficult for a beginner developer to keep up.

So I decided to stick with the original plan of programming my project in Objective C. The language was not going to change, all of the great resources I had been learning from were written in Objective C, as were all of Apple's APIs. If I want to introduce some Swift later on, I can quite easily as Apple makes it simple to combine both languages in a single project.