Now that the dust has settled over the first day of WWDC, news of Apple’s (S AAPL) new Swift programming language has caused quite a stir, especially considering there were no rumors indicating the company was planning the move.

Designed to be the successor to Objective-C, the primary language programmers use to write software for OS X and iOS, the new language will supposedly make coders’ lives easier by making the process of developing software faster and less-painful.

Apple’s senior vice president of software Craig Federighi showed off some graphs that backed up the company’s assertions, although time will will tell if Apple’s statistics are too good to be true.

Speaking my language

Some developer consider this great news because working with Objective-C was a pain:

For others, Swift doesn’t…