"For anyone who has been programming in a modern language such as Ruby [1995], Python [1991], Clojure [2007], Haskell [1990], etc, and who was put off developing iOS apps by Objective-C, Swift marks a new era."
You say modern but I don't think it's really what you mean here.
Your descriptions of Ruby vs Obj-C make it seem that really what you mean is high-level; that is, to a newer programmer, easier.
These languages (Haskell excepted) make it very easy to do simple things. Describing them as "modern" in contrast with the implicitly antiquated Obj-C makes it a little hard to take your assertions seriously.
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"For anyone who has been programming in a modern language such as Ruby [1995], Python [1991], Clojure [2007], Haskell [1990], etc, and who was put off developing iOS apps by Objective-C, Swift marks a new era."
You say modern but I don't think it's really what you mean here.
Your descriptions of Ruby vs Obj-C make it seem that really what you mean is high-level; that is, to a newer programmer, easier.
These languages (Haskell excepted) make it very easy to do simple things. Describing them as "modern" in contrast with the implicitly antiquated Obj-C makes it a little hard to take your assertions seriously.
Verbosity is a claim to make, age is not.