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Apple Swift

Swift is a programming language for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS apps that builds on the best of C...

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    2023-09-23

Features & Specs

  1. Performance

    Swift is designed to be fast and efficient, often outperforming older languages such as Objective-C. This is due to its modern architecture and LLVM compiler, which optimizes code during the compile time.

  2. Safety

    Swift provides safety features like optional types and automatic memory management, which help developers avoid common programming errors. This reduces the risk of runtime crashes and enhances code stability.

  3. Syntax

    Swift has a clean and expressive syntax, making it easy to read and write. This simplicity reduces the learning curve for new developers and improves code maintainability.

  4. Interoperability with Objective-C

    Swift is designed to easily coexist with Objective-C. Developers can integrate Swift code into existing Objective-C projects seamlessly, facilitating gradual transitions to modern Swift codebases.

  5. Active Community and Support

    Swift benefits from Apple's strong backing and a growing community of developers. This provides extensive resources, community support, and continuous updates to improve the language.

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  • macOS Sequoia is certified to Unix 03
    - And the Swift Language - https://swift.org. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • Learning Swift: The Basics of iOS Development
    Open Source: Swift is open source, meaning it's free to use and has a growing community. You can find the source code, as well as many resources and discussions on Swift.org. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago
  • Differentiable Swift
    So is differentiable Swift a package for Swift or is it part of the Swift standard library? The video says go to swift.org but I can't find any info about differentiable Swift on that site. Source: over 1 year ago
  • How far can you get with Swift and iOS development on Linux?
    You can learn the Swift language, but not iOS development. So after you're done with basics from swift.org, you need to switch to macOS. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Is there a web site I can go to if I want to find the SwiftUI roadmap?
    Like someone mentioned swift.org is a start. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Orion on windows linux subsystem wrong version of SwiftSyntax
    I'm guessing I've downloaded the wrong version of swift.org toolchain. Source: about 2 years ago
  • UIKit on Windows?
    Note that the screenshot you shared is from an old (and AFAICT abandoned) port of Swift based upon MinGW. You should look to https://swift.org for the official releases for Windows which are more current. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Better way to do this mess of a bunch of if's...
    Bingo - clamped() will work great. That's not even in the swift.org docs. That makes a nice clean readable function. If anyone is interested, the definition of clamped() is in the swift standard library in Apple's docs. It's a pretty useful call. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/range/clamped(to:)). Source: over 2 years ago
  • Rust is mostly safety
    The Swift language is the product of tireless effort from a team of language experts, documentation gurus, compiler optimization ninjas, and an incredibly important internal dogfooding group who provided feedback to help refine and battle-test ideas. Of course, it also greatly benefited from the experiences hard-won by many other languages in the field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python,... Source: almost 3 years ago
  • Linguistic meaning of 'let' variable in programming [duplicate]
    I googled this and to my amazement, I couldn't find an answer. I already knew Swift also has a let keyword (they use it for constants), but apparently some other programming languages use it as well. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • Show HN: DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)
    If you haven't already, please crawl and . - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago
  • Why do they do this?
    There's the swift code described here that came out in 2014. There's also a Swift code that came out in the 70's. They are completely different things, so there's no way to tell which "Swift" they are talking about in the context of this post. Source: over 3 years ago
  • The Roblox Desktop App Experience(for macOS btw)
    It kinda looks like the Windows app/mobile app upscaled for desktop. Now I don't know what language this is written in but if I can guess it's written in ![Swift](https://swift.org) by looking at info.plist in the Application Package. Source: over 3 years ago
  • Searchable swift documentation?
    If you are not looking for Apple specific things, here's the official Swift site: https://swift.org/ The documentation is very good usually with a lot of examples. Source: over 3 years ago
  • Learning to create iOS apps... Lagacy vs. SwiftUI
    Let me ask this... as an experienced developer new to the iOS world... what resources, courses, etc. Would you recommend? The swift.org language guide is really good and has helped me through most things... But there are still some mysteries specifically to iOS. Definitely some lifecycle mysteries, to me at least. Source: over 3 years ago
  • Swift on Linux
    Right now, I have a Fedora server with it installed so I can get the basics under wraps -- like class definitions, extensions, protocols, etc. So yes - it could be a great learning tool. However, I'm unsure what libraries are currently available to do any real lifting on Linux, but it didn't complain when I imported Foundation for some reason. I know the only documentation that I can reliably say is for Linux (or... Source: almost 4 years ago
  • what even is "void safety"?
    And many more trying to catch up with the innovative languages of the past. Source: almost 4 years ago
  • Is it just me or did Swift duplicate itself
    Happens whenever I go to swift.org. Source: almost 4 years ago
  • Swift: Deconstruct SPF Getting Started
    In my previous series "Learning Rust". I decided to attempt to learn some fairly basic rust concepts and constructs by working on a fairly simple project. This seemed to go fairly well. So I am now going to attempt to work on the same project, but this time, using Swift. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago
  • Top 5 Programming Skills Worth Learning in 2021
    You can start with Swift at https://swift.org/ and Kotlin at https://kotlinlang.org/. - Source: dev.to / about 4 years ago
  • I still haven’t made a app that can run on Xcode after 2 months of trying to learn swift.
    The most underrated Swift website: https://swift.org/. Source: about 4 years ago

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