Swift

Summary

A powerful and intuitive programming language developed by Apple for iOS, macOS, and other platforms. Swift combines modern programming concepts with an elegant syntax designed for safety, performance, and expressiveness.

Paradigms

imperative, object-oriented, functional, concurrent, generic, declarative, structured, dataflow

Domains

server-side applications, desktop applications, mobile development

Key Features

algebraic data types, pattern matching, type inference, closures, generics, string interpolation, first-class functions, named arguments, modules, traits/interfaces

Typing

static system, non-structural typing, strong typing, full inference, compile-time checking, conservative type coercion, optional type annotations

Compilation

compiled, interpreted with JIT compilation

Influenced By

Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, C#, Python, Ruby, Java, C++, Smalltalk, D, Scala, CLU, C

Ratings

File extensions

swift

External Links

• Swift official site
• Swift jobs at Devjobsscanner
• r/swift subreddit
• Trending GitHub repositories