20 facts about swift programming language
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FACTS ABOUTSWIFT PROGRAMMINGLANGUAGE20
Developed for 4 years in secrecy, nobodyknew about it outside of Apple, which is
impressive
#1
Swift is supposed to combine the best parts of C andObjective C without compatibility constraints and
provides new features.
#2
It can be used for products with iOS7 andOSX 10.9 and higher.
#3
It supports many modern programminglanguages like Closures with Function
Pointers, Generics as well as functionalprogramming patterns.
#4
Better type safety
#5
Better memory management
#6
Created by Chris Lattner, the same personwho wrote llvm
#7
First appeared in June 2, 2014
#8
2014
Swift 2 finally comes with built-in support forchecking API availability
#9
Development began in 2010
#10
It supports three access control levels forsymbols: public, internal, and private.
#11
An important new feature in Swift is optiontypes
#12
Swift 2.0 was introduced at WWDC 2015
#13
Safety is a core value idea in Swift.
#14
Apple wants your code to look beautiful andnatural.
#15
Enums are one of the best features
#16
ENUM
Statements do not need to end with asemicolon like from Objective-C
#17
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The two biggest applauses this year werewhen Apple announced UI testing support in
Xcode 7 and Swift goes Open Source
#18
Apple has combined both println() and print()functions into one
#19
Swift is awesome :)
#20
Excited?DoSelect now supports Swift.
Read more here: http://blog.doselect.com/post/134983106223/swift-has-landed
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