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Swift is a multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created by Apple for iOS and OS X development.
There is said that Swift will replace Objective-C in next 2 years.
– dev by Chris Lattner since 2010
– WWDC 2014 1st introduced Swift
– Swift took language ideas “from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list”
– designed to work with Apple’s Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks and the large body of existing Objective-C code written for Apple products
– built with the LLVM compiler framework included in Xcode 6, and uses the Objective-C runtime, allowing C, Objective-C, C++ and Swift code to run within a single program