Paradigm shift: The NeXT era ends, the Swift era begins

WWDC 2019: Mind-blowing!
Brent Simmons for inessential:

I’m surely not the only person to think, all week long, that this WWDC marks the end of Apple’s NeXT era and the beginning of the Swift era…
The NeXT era began, of course, when Apple acquired NeXT, with its Unix-based operating system, amazing developer tools and frameworks, and its CEO, Steve Jobs.
Though I don’t discount Catalyst’s usefulness — we will get lots of apps new to the Mac — the real news this week was about SwiftUI and the Combine framework. This, finally, is a new way of writing apps, and it’s based on Swift and not on Objective-C. It’s very much not from NeXT.
It’s early. It has bugs. It’s not nearly complete. Sure. But it’s also how we’re going to write apps in the future.
And it’s mind-blowing. Apple’s marketing for this year’s WWDC had it right.

MacDailyNews Take: Here we go! Next up are ARM-based Macs with Apple designed SoCs and we can’t wait!