Swift

Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...

— Merlin, The Coder

What is Swift?[edit]

Swift is a programming language made for development on apple devices. Swift was created by Chris Lattner and started development in 2010. For programming on apple devices, swift is a great alternative to Objective C (Which most programmers hate).

Protocol-oriented programming (Basically 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 but runs much slower than rust and C. This is pretty good for an object-oriented programming language.

Why swift?[edit]

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

External Links[edit]

Speed tests

Apple's webpage

Wiki