Swift

Swift is a high-level general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created by Chris Lattner in 2010 for Apple Inc. and maintained by the open-source community. Swift compiles to machine code and uses an LLVM-based compiler. Swift was first released in June 2014 and the Swift toolchain has shipped in Xcode since Xcode version 6, released in September 2014. Wikipedia

Created Year: 2014
Created by: Doug Gregor
Designed by: AppleChris Lattner
Developed by: Doug GregorApple
Operating systems: Microsoft WindowswatchOSWindows 10macOStvOSiOSiPadOSvisionOSLinux
Aliases: Apple Swift, Swift programming language, Swift language, Swift (Apple programming language), Swiftlang, Swift.org
File extensions: swift

Wikidata: Q17118377

Influenced: BallerinaCubLionessRustV

Influenced by: Apache GroovyC++CLUC#DHaskellJavaObjective-CPythonRubyRustScalaSmalltalk

Programming paradigms: imperative programmingdeclarative programmingobject-oriented programmingmulti-paradigm programmingblock-structured programmingfunctional programming

Language types: imperative programming languageblock-structured programming languagefunctional programming languageobject-based languagemulti-paradigm programming language

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