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- Swift is a new programming language developed by Apple Inc for iOS and OS X development. Swift adopts the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility.
- Swift makes use of safe programming patterns.
- Swift provides modern programming features.
- Swift provides Objective-C like syntax.
- Swift is a fantastic way to write iOS and OS X apps.
- Swift provides seamless access to existing Cocoa frameworks.
- Swift unifies the procedural and object-oriented portions of the language.
- Swift does not need a separate library import for functionality like input/output or string handling.
- Swift uses the same runtime as the existing Obj-C system on Mac OS and iOS which makes Swift programs 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.
- It took almost 14 years to bring the first public release of the Swift language starting from 2010 by Chris Lattner and later supported by many other contributors. and later a great collaboration of many other programmers. Swift has been included in Xcode 6 beta.
- Swift designers took ideas from various other popular languages like Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list.
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