Apple unveiled a new programming language at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June, Swift, claiming that it would make life easier for programmers. While there is no absolute verdict in just yet, most agree Swift will be successful, even if it isn't the big leap Apple claims it to be.

For starters, Swift has a built-in demographic already waiting for it: all the iPhone and iPad users around the world. Swift is designed for the Apple ecosystem, an ecosystem that zealously accepts its own above all. Others have tried and failed, but it seems highly likely that Apple will enjoy a decent amount of success with Swift. In fact, Swift has already cracked top 10 on the PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index and has risen to No. 16 in the July TIOBE Index.

"Google unveiled a language called Go in 2009, and though it was designed by some of the biggest names in the history of software design -- Ken Thompson and Rob Pike -- it's still struggling to gain a major following among the world's coders," reads a Wired article on why Swift will be change the programming landscape. "But Swift is a different animal. When it's officially released this fall, it could achieve mass adoption with unprecedented speed, surpassing even the uptake of Sun Microsystems' Java programming language and Microsoft's C# in the late 1990s and early 2000s."