What didn't Objective-C do for them? What are the advantages of Swift over Objective-C?
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Swift is a much more modern language, not burdened with compatibility issues with C. Adding features like memory safety, memory safety, generic classes / methods (generics), non-nullable reference types would be very difficult if you stay within Objective C. (Compare, for example, lambdas in Objective C and in Swift.)
Syncatsis and C semantics are good for low-level languages (such as C, for example), but high-level features are easier to do on a different basis.
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