10 Advantages of Swift Programming Language

  10 Advantages of Swift Programming Language

Apple inc. introduced objective C almost 30 years ago for OS X iOS application development . With the passage of time objective-C has lost its significance. Thus Apple has thus introduced swift programming language as a substitute to Objective-C.

 Swift has many many additions as compared to old objective-C. Overall swift resembles the simplified version of Scala. It includes a whole host of surprising advanced features which one would have dreamt about using for a while, as well as standard features missed by Objective-C developers. In this blog I would talk about the ten advantages of swift programming language, I am sure that this blog would definitely clear your concepts about swift.


1. More Fast Language


Swift is a faster language as compared to Objective-C. it is efficient and processes the coding more rapidly than some of the other languages. Due to this feature it is gaining a lot of popularity among the programming community.

2. More Safe Language


Apple Inc. has made efforts to make Swift safe in a variety of ways. Programmers must include brace brackets to open and close "If" statements, which prevents bugs such as SSL “goto fail” error. In addition, switch statements must include a default statement. This guarantees that something will run at the end of the statement even if none of the possibilities in the statement are satisfied.

3. Favorite Of The Young Programmers


Swift is more similar to languages such as Ruby and Python than Objective-C. There’s no problem with writing new modules in swift that interpolate with existing Objective-C code bases. This makes swift attractive if you have already built considerable skill base in Objective-C.


4. Make Experiment with Swift in “Playground”


One of Swift's most interesting features is an interactive environment called a “Playground”. This tool allows you to see the effects of changes or additions to code as you type, without going through the time-consuming headache of running the code through the compiler and executing it.


5. Swift introduces Generics


Generics are functions that can be reused with different variable types without being rewritten for each for each type. For example, a function that adds up the contents of an array. In some cases the content might be floating point numbers etc.

6. Swift Handles Strings More Easily


The way you deal with strings in the swift language is much easy and simpler. Most especially, you can concatenate strings easily using “+=” and compare strings using “==” instead of the more cumbersome “isEqualToString:”. Strings can also be used in switch statements.


7. Swift Tuples Offer Compound Variables


A tuple lets you group multiple elements into a single compound variable. The values in a swift tuple can be of any type and don’t have to be the same type as each other. You can make a tuple from any permutation of types that you like.

8. A Complete Language With Modern Requirements


Swift is a modern language that has been launched keeping in view the modern programming ethics. Apple is still working on it to make it a perfect language. Once, it is complete it would be the most perfect language available. Apple's app stores won't accept apps built with Swift until it first releases Yosemite and iOS 8.


9. Apple, The Master Of Swift


There's the advantage that, once Swift becomes mainstream, it will make porting iOS apps to Android that much harder. You won't be able to use existing and relatively mature tools that port Objective-C to Java.


10. Swift Is Close To The Nature Of Programming


Swift has been developed keeping in view this aspect that it is very close to the nature of programming. Swift makes programming feel more natural, and reduces the amount of work you have to do to code.

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