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Latest revision as of 15:13, 18 August 2023
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— Merlin, The Coder
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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
