It&#x27;s less beginner-proof, and more &quot;doing bad things proof&quot;. The purpose of releasing Swift as open source is that they <i>don&#x27;t</i> want it to be an Apple language. I can&#x27;t wait for it to replace Python for scripting - I dread every time I&#x27;m writing code without a competent type system.<p>&gt; be paid up on fees<p>This isn&#x27;t true anymore, FWIW. Also, OS X apps exist.