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If you want to develop for Apple devices, it's basically either Objective-C or Swift. Objective-C was introduced in 1984, Swift in 2014. Swift has many modern concepts and is being actively developed, Objective-C is in the past.
The question whether do you prefer Swift is actually not about language itself, but is about whether do you develop apps for Apple hardware. If you do - then use Swift, but if you work in other domain (let's say web or backend development) - choose something else as Swift has very limited adoption outside of Apple world.