Don&#x27;t get me wrong – I&#x27;m a big fan of Objective C, and I think it gets a far harder time than it deserves.<p>That said, Swift feels similar while being more productive:<p>- Lots of nice syntactic sugar to reduce noise
- Optionals (and chained calls) which do much the same
- Type inference!
- A REPL. Pretty amazing.
- Bounds checking<p>lots more nice features too.