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I honestly expected Bret Victor to do the demo on Swift after seeing the realtime playground etc.

You are correct he was not involved. But the language creator specifically calls him and Lightroom out as inspiration.

I love that his account's URL is http://www.quora.com/Bret-Victor-1, because http://www.quora.com/Bret-Victor was already dedicated to his name as a topic.