It&#x27;s interesting to compare Swift 2 -&gt; 3 to the Python 2 -&gt; 3 upgrade experience. Apple will simply break whatever they need to break to get the improvements they decide would be valuable, move on, and anyone who doesn&#x27;t follow is likely to be left in the dust.<p>Frankly, I welcome it after years of feeling like the only Python 3 user on Earth.<p>For the next few years, I expect Apple will wield a great deal more power over the Swift user community than the Benevolent Dictator For Life has wielded over his supposed minions. I hope we&#x27;ll get a better language this way, and that these changes won&#x27;t simply break third-party products to make changes that mostly benefit Apple.<p>Rich, powerful giant gives power to fork to the little people. Will it be like C#? Like Java? Eventually like Python? Should be interesting....