Swift

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What is Swift?[edit]

Swift is a programming language made for development on Apple devices. Chris Lattner created Swift; he started developing it in 2010. For programming on Apple devices, Swift is a great alternative to Objective C (which most programmers hate).

Protocol-oriented programming (basically object-oriented programming (OOP))
Basic value types
Access control

   1. open
   2. public
   3. internal
   4. fileprivate
   5. private

String support

   1. Being able to concatenate strings similar to Python

Performance[edit]

Swift runs significantly faster than Python, PHP, LUA (nobody uses this), and Ruby; however, it runs much slower than rust and C. This is pretty good for an OOP language.

Why Swift?[edit]

Swift is fast
Swift can be used on IOS devices
Swift is object-oriented
Swift is modern
Swift is common

References[edit]

Speed tests

Apple's webpage

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