Swift
Apple's safe and fast language for iOS, macOS and the rest of its platforms. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- Apple and the Swift community
- Created by
- Chris Lattner
- First release
- 2014
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.swift.org
- Paradigms
- Object-oriented, Functional, Procedural
- Typing
- Static
- Type strength
- Strong
- Type inference
- Yes
- Memory management
- Reference counted
- Runs as
- Native code
- Main implementation
- swiftc (LLVM)
- Concurrency
- async/await, actors
- Null safety
- Yes
- Package manager
- Swift Package Manager
- Used for
- Mobile, Desktop, Back end
- Specification
- None, the compiler is the reference