Chapter 1. Introducing Swift: Apps, Systems, and Beyond!
Swift is a programming language you can rely on. It’s a programming language you can take home to meet your family. Safe, reliable, speedy, friendly, easy to talk to. And, while Swift is best known for being the programming language of choice for Apple’s platforms, such as iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, the open source Swift project also runs on Linux and Windows, and is gaining ground as a systems programming language, as well as on the server. You can build everything from mobile apps, to games, to web apps, to frameworks and beyond. Let’s get started!
Swift is a language for everything
Swift is also open source. The Swift open source project is vibrant, well managed, and has a friendly and clear process for getting involved.
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We’ll discuss how you can get involved near the end of the book.
No matter what you want to make, you can do it with Swift.
Swift has evolved fast.
From humble beginnings with Swift 1, all the way through to today, and into the future, Swift is a constantly evolving language, with new additions every year.
Each major Swift update has added new language features, as well as deprecating ...
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