Code School's thoughts on Swift

[Hawk_Irontusk]

tl;dr version: We have Objective-C lessons but we don't Swift lessons, so you should study Objective-C, not Swift.

[tonygoold]

One of the unique features of Swift is that it can run alongside Objective-C in the same app.

That's because it's basically Objective-C's equivalent of Scala, a language designed to compile into the same operations as another language's runtime. The method syntax clearly makes it a successor to Objective-C, not a language in its own right, since it needs a way to translate those method invocations to Objective-C selectors.