Why I'm not excited about Swift

He hit the nail on the head with Ruby Motion for Android. Don't forget C# with Xamarin. Kind of makes Swift pointless for any serious [cross platform] mobile development. You can get the benefits of modern languages today, without Swift.

I'm personally not excited about Swift because Swift doesn't save you from Cocoa.

It'll just be:

   let userDefaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
   let lastRefreshDate: AnyObject? = userDefaults.objectForKey("LastRefreshDate")

instead of:

    NSUserDefaults *userDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
    NSDate *lastRefreshDate = [userDefaults objectForKey:"LastRefreshDate"];

When people complain about Objective-C, they're really complaining about Cocoa/UIKit.

To each his own.