What is Swift programming language used for?

Article by: Manish Methani

Last Updated: September 25, 2021 at 10:04am IST
1 min 35 sec read

Swift is a robust and intuitive programming language created by Apple for building apps for iOS, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. It's designed to give developers more freedom than ever. Swift is easy to use and open-source, so anyone with an idea can create something incredible.

Swift is a new programming language for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS app development. Swift programming language is the best invention for programming lovers.

Features of Swift over Objective-C

1) Swift introduces advanced types not found in Objective-C, such as Tuples. We will cover the concepts in upcoming articles.

2) Swift also introduces optional types, which handle the absence of a value. Optionals say either "there is a value, and it equals x" or �there isn't a value at all".

3) Swift is a type-safe language, which means the language helps you to be clear about the types of values your code can work with.

Swift Environment

Xcode is an development environment which is used to create iOS Apps. You can download Xcode from official link of Apple Developers site.