Ever since, Swift was announced by Apple, it has definitely made life easier for hobbyists to program iOS apps. A lot of iOS developers are still hanging to Obj-C but a lot of newbies take on swift, instead of taking the older and slightly obtuse Obj-C.

I was at the May meetup of the Swift SF, which is also the largest swift user group in the world. The talk was about Building Functional Apps in Swift and it was very interesting.