20 facts about swift programming language

FACTS ABOUTSWIFT PROGRAMMINGLANGUAGE20

Developed for 4 years in secrecy, nobodyknew about it outside of Apple, which is

impressive

#1

Swift is supposed to combine the best parts of C andObjective C without compatibility constraints and

provides new features.

#2

It can be used for products with iOS7 andOSX 10.9 and higher.

#3

It supports many modern programminglanguages like Closures with Function

Pointers, Generics as well as functionalprogramming patterns.

#4

Better type safety

#5

Better memory management

#6

Created by Chris Lattner, the same personwho wrote llvm

#7

First appeared in June 2, 2014

#8

2014

Swift 2 finally comes with built-in support forchecking API availability

#9

Development began in 2010

#10

It supports three access control levels forsymbols: public, internal, and private.

#11

An important new feature in Swift is optiontypes

#12

Swift 2.0 was introduced at WWDC 2015

#13

Safety is a core value idea in Swift.

#14

Apple wants your code to look beautiful andnatural.

#15

Enums are one of the best features

#16

ENUM

Statements do not need to end with asemicolon like from Objective-C

#17

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The two biggest applauses this year werewhen Apple announced UI testing support in

Xcode 7 and Swift goes Open Source

#18

Apple has combined both println() and print()functions into one

#19

Swift is awesome :)

#20

Excited?DoSelect now supports Swift.

Read more here: http://blog.doselect.com/post/134983106223/swift-has-landed

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