How do I get a plist as a Dictionary in Swift?

You can still use NSDictionaries in Swift:

For Swift 4

 var nsDictionary: NSDictionary?
 if let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Config", ofType: "plist") {
    nsDictionary = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: path)
 }

For Swift 3+

if let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Config", ofType: "plist"),
   let myDict = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: path){
    // Use your myDict here
}

And older versions of Swift

var myDict: NSDictionary?
if let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("Config", ofType: "plist") {
    myDict = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: path)
}
if let dict = myDict {
    // Use your dict here
}

The NSClasses are still available and perfectly fine to use in Swift. I think they'll probably want to shift focus to swift soon, but currently the swift APIs don't have all the functionality of the core NSClasses.

This is what I do if I want to convert a .plist to a Swift dictionary:

if let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("Config", ofType: "plist") {
  if let dict = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: path) as? Dictionary<String, AnyObject> {
    // use swift dictionary as normal
  }
}

Edited for Swift 2.0:

if let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("Config", ofType: "plist"), dict = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: path) as? [String: AnyObject] {
    // use swift dictionary as normal
}

Edited for Swift 3.0:

if let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Config", ofType: "plist"), let dict = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: path) as? [String: AnyObject] {
        // use swift dictionary as normal
}

Swift 4.0

You can now use the Decodable protocol to Decode a .plist into a custom struct. I will go over a basic example, for more complicated .plist structures I recommend reading up on Decodable/Encodable (a good resource is here: https://benscheirman.com/2017/06/swift-json/).

First setup your struct into the format of your .plist file. For this example I will consider a .plist with a root level Dictionary and 3 entries: 1 String with key "name", 1 Int with key "age", and 1 Boolean with key "single". Here is the struct:

struct Config: Decodable {
    private enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
        case name, age, single
    }

    let name: String
    let age: Int
    let single: Bool
}

Simple enough. Now the cool part. Using the PropertyListDecoder class we can easily parse the .plist file into an instantiation of this struct:

func parseConfig() -> Config {
    let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "Config", withExtension: "plist")!
    let data = try! Data(contentsOf: url)
    let decoder = PropertyListDecoder()
    return try! decoder.decode(Config.self, from: data)
}

Not much more code to worry about, and its all in Swift. Better yet we now have an instantiation of the Config struct that we can easily use:

let config = parseConfig()
print(config.name) 
print(config.age)
print(config.single) 

This Prints the value for the "name", "age", and "single" keys in the .plist.