Swift
An open-source programming language by Apple
A general-purpose programming language that’s approachable for newcomers and powerful for experts. It is fast, modern, safe, and a joy to write.
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Swift earns glowing praise for speed, safety, and tight alignment with Apple platforms. Makers of Sugar Free: Food Scanner highlight strong performance and smooth ecosystem integration, while makers of Eight Sleep report better reliability, faster iteration, and easy adoption of Widgets, Watch, and Siri. Makers of Omi note rapid delivery of buttery-smooth native apps. Users commend clean, modern syntax, SwiftUI’s productivity across Apple platforms, and helpful typing and concurrency. Downsides are modest: tooling feels Apple-centric and the broader ecosystem is smaller than JavaScript or Python.
This AI synopsis blends highlights gathered from recent reviewers.
How people rate Swift
Based on 13 reviews
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Swift is my favorite programming languages and helped me fall in love with programming
Frontend for FitDM. Pretty solid.
Already worked with a lot of programming languages (C, C++, ObjectiveC, Java, JavaScript), but Swift is definitely one of the best (if not THE best). The only small downside is that generics are really extremely "typed", but even this improved a lot over the last few years. The best things about Swift: safe optionals, good error handling and Swift concurrency.