> One is left wondering how well he understood the needs of the developers who would be using the Swift language and library, though he says others on the Swift team had experience writing apps.

Maybe a couple of years ago I read someone commenting on the /r/ObjectiveC subreddit that his problem with Swift was that it was pretty clearly not written by someone who was an application developer, and who had the needs of an application developer at heart. Rather, the language was written by a compiler guy, and for the compiler. It's interesting to see another opinion more or less in line with that one.

I was an iOS developer for 5 years. I've since bailed. I'll still do it as a hobby, and wish I could get back into it; but Swift just rubs me the wrong way. I never quite understood the antipathy some people have towards Objective-C. Is it the brackets? Boo-hoo.