Swift

Swift was developed by Apple in 2014. It is considered a very young language, but thanks to strong support from Apple, it has become popular almost from day one.

We have been developing Swift for several years. The basis of the new programming language was the existing compiler, debugger and frameworks. We’ve simplified the memory management process with Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). Our frameworks have also undergone a major upgrade. Objective-C began to support blocks, literals and modules – all of which created favorable conditions for the introduction of modern technologies. It was this preparatory work that served as the foundation for a new programming language that will be used to develop future software products for Apple.

Objective-C developers will find Swift familiar. It combines the readability of named parameters with the power of the Objective-C dynamic object model. It allows access to existing Cocoa frameworks and is compatible with code written in Objective-C. Built on this common foundation, the language offers many new possibilities and unifies the procedural and object-oriented aspects of the programming language.