Learning Apple's Swift Language

EDIT 18 Feb 2015: this seems to be one of my most popular posts, and I'm guessing it is people looking for help instead of me rabbiting on. In which case, I highly recommend the Swift tutorials on Ray Wenderlich's website. I am getting a lot out of them
http://www.raywenderlich.com/

I've been learning or trying to learn Apple Swift on and off since November, using numerous tutorials. The language itself seems quite nice and fairly intuitive, but XCode 6 is a moving target, and has been updated to version 6.1 since I started my journey (I gave up on Objective C about a year ago, I couldnt get into XCode 5 at all). I was noticing stability issues in the IDE (crashing due to syntax errors -- what's up with that?) but these seem to have been resolved by the new release. Still, as Apple are always touted as a quality company, and I have happy memories of learning Turbo Pascal for Macintosh back in the Stone Age, I am underwhelmed. I have also been dabbling with Eclipse and Scala, and in comparison although I havent pushed either Eclipse or Scala as hard, I'm finding it a more pleasant and familiar experience as a long time Visual Studio user