Introducing Swift
Swift is a high-performance modern programming language that was first announced at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in September 2014. Thanks to Apple's strong support and endorsement from the developer community, Swift has become one of the fastest growing new languages in computer science history. Swift 2.0 was released in September 2015, followed by Swift 3.0 a year later, and Swift 4.0 in September 2017. There have been two additional releases: Swift 4.1 in March 2018 and Swift 4.2 in September 2018.
As a modern language, Swift offers a clean syntax and many modern programming language constructs. Even though Swift is inspired by many other popular programming languages, Swift is an independent language ...
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