First thing I thought of when I saw all the func calls, curly braces and beaks (->) was "this looks like in between Lua and Go"
After starting to dig into the book, it's pretty apparent that isn't the case
It seems like half the comments about Swift have been comparing it to languages which it superficially resembles at the syntax level. And the other half of the comments are along the lines of, "I can't stand Objective-C's brackets, this looks much better."
It's like that scene from The Matrix: "I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head." I'd have expected experienced programmers to have reached that point long ago.
0. Semantics
1. Syntax
2. Lexical syntax
3. Lexical syntax of comments"The first thing you're exposed to is its sounds and symbols.
They look & sound strange and your brain instinctively tries to make sense of them by comparing it to something you are already familiar with.
Then when you dig into it you begin learning vocabulary and grammar. You focus on that for a long time until the sounds sound less like gibberish and resemble something like what you've been practicing putting on paper.
Once you get comfortable with the constructs and stop focusing on them you can start conversing - putting more effort into what you're trying to say then how you would go about saying it.
After that then you can start picking up all the idioms, colloquialisms, cliches, double entendres, etc
Finally you can start inventing your own.