Swift is one of the fastest-growing programming languages and is currently one of the fastest and fastest ways to create iPhone applications. In 2014 Apple thought it would be good, in addition to computers, phones, tablets, operating systems, to launch a programming language. Its name is Swift and has become increasingly popular among application developers.
Since its introduction, Swift has jumped from 68th place to 22nd place in the top programming languages, according to statistics compiled by RedMonk. This place is earned by more than just popularity, not for how used Swift is. The top was made based on questions about programs and how many lines of code were written.
Swift is a multilingual, compiled programming language that was created to support the development of iOS and OS X.
Swift is a compilation of programming languages, where only the best features have been grouped.
Most of Swift’s elements are inspired by C and Objective-C, but also by Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python.
Swift works with the Cocoa interface for OS X or the Cocoa Touch for iOS.
Like any other Swift programming language, you need to discover it, and for that, you have to have a little programming experience behind it to figure out what you can rely on.
From what has been said so far it seems that Swift has left the barrier for Apple application developers a little lower because it is a much easier, flexible language. It resembles Python or Ruby to some extent.
Swift was created especially for the development of Apple applications, but this has an even less good side because it can meet resistance. Developers want to know a language that can be useful in developing multi-platform programs. Either learning Swift means you only specialize in Apple.
A special feature that is very useful in today’s devices, which is still memory-hungry, is “automatic garbage collection.” This means it will automatically dump all the information you don’t need from memory. This means that programmers will not be too busy with memory management.
After all, Swift is not something completely different. It’s inspired by other programming languages, except that every time Apple wants something original, copied from multiple sources.
Considering what it replaces, Swift offers an improvement in allowing high-speed code writing. With all the advantages offered, it will surely make room for the heart of even the most loyal Objective-C programmers, and this will happen at a more alert pace compared to the situation of other languages.
Does it still matter if it’s a language specific to the Apple ecosystem? This depends only on the purpose of each one. Apple has stopped supporting Java for a while, so a union with the programming language that underlies Android doesn’t seem achievable in the near future.
As a result, any revolution in the platform is more than welcome and will certainly produce innovations in the near future. There is even the possibility of being open-sourced, how Apple did in the case of Clang and LLVM, giving everyone the chance to contribute to its improvement.