Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Writing Swift code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and Swift includes modern features developers love.More..
History:
Development of Swift started in July 2010 by Chris Lattner, with the eventual collaboration of many other programmers at Apple. Swift took language ideas "from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Rub y, Python, C , CLU, and far too many others to list". ... Swift 1.2 was released on April 8, 2015, along with Xcode 6.3.
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| Chris Lattner |
Example:
// Swift "Hello, World!" Program
print("Hello, World!")