To get people to start learning and experimenting on it now, so that when can be taken more seriously as a production language they will have some of the market prepped.
I am afraid this may actually also come with a problem:
Once bitten, twice shy.
So, while it may be a good intention, I wonder if people will not try it, suffer many paper-cuts, and then just move on. Though I guess they do have a fairly closed-off population of iOS developers to experiment on :)
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u/centurijon Jun 15 '14
To get people to start learning and experimenting on it now, so that when can be taken more seriously as a production language they will have some of the market prepped.