At WWDC, Apple introduced Swift, a new, quick-to-learn programming language to replace its old faithful Objective-C. Development chief Craig Federighi called it Objective-C without the baggage of C. Al Hilwa of IDC notes that it combines many ideas from existing successful programming languages. Federighi discussed Swift as a functional language for iOS and OS X development, but it contains features that will make it highly scalable and hint at its possible future deployment in cloud computing.

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