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It's neither weird nor pointless. They're going for something that is as comfortable to work with as modern dynamic languages, for something that eschews the cruft of ObjC. Python is simply a very popular representative for this type of language.

Of course, it's an easy target. But I can see why they went for it.

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Yeah, I kind of get it after some additional thought (and reading through the replies). Maybe I missed out on some detail (not watching the live video, just a text stream) – now that I've taken a look at the syntax, the comparison seems more valid. Still, comparing this to Javascript would've been more interesting (webapps, all that stuff).

Apple pushed the speed of Javascript in the newest version of Safari, earlier in the keynote. They probably try not to complete with themselves.

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