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 ne