Swift - Overview

Swift Overview

Swift is a new programming language developed by Apple Inc. Swift Adopts the best of C and Objective C, without the constraints of C Compatibility.

• Simple and Safe Programming Pattern.
• Provides Modern Programming Features.
• Syntax is similar as Objective C.
• Provides access to existing cocoa frameworks.
• Unify the Procedures and Object Oriented Programming portion of the language.
• Swift does not need any Separate library import and support functionalities like input output or string handling.

Swift uses the same runtime as the existing Obj-C system on Mac OS and iOS, which enables Swift programs to run on many existing iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 platforms.

Swift comes with playground feature where Swift programmers can write their code and execute it to see the results immediately.

The first public release of Swift was released in 2010. It took Chris Lattner almost 14 years to come up with the first official version, and later, it was supported by many other contributors. Swift has been included in Xcode 6 beta.

Swift designers took ideas from various other popular languages such as Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, and CLU.