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Its amusing to see Apple cheerleaders defend Swift as being good enough for version 0.1 when supposedly Apple is this company that only releases products when they're complete/polished/etc. Apple themselves proclaim its "Ready Today" on their marketing page as well. (https://developer.apple.com/swift/)


Apple does that with _consumer_ products (well, usually; please ignore Siri). They've historically been much more willing to ship developer stuff that's very rough around the edges; the iPhone OS 2.0 SDK shipped in a barely usable state, for instance, and Xcode 4 was a similar story.


Fair enough. :)




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