“C” for many of us is just a letter from 36 lettered alphabet, but if we ask an iPhone application developer, he will say it as a sanctified letter because the base of iPhone programming is based on this single letter “C.” However, with sundry paybacks “C” correspondingly passes complexity, complication and clutter in iPhone programming. Due to this impediment of C, iPhone programming seems to be tough, however no one would have even realized this toughness or impediment before the announcement of a new programming language “SWIFT” for iOS and OS X development in the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday June 02, 2014 as there was no better alternative for this intricacy. Thus, this programming language is launched with intent to have Objective C without a baggage of C. This comes as an excellent news for all iOS and OS X developers and establishments that facilitate this programming.
“Swift “ is professed as the fastest programming language and very developer centric, where developer can comprehend the result of their programming in real time. Swift is not only faster, but also easier to code. Swift additionally promises to be a divine grail for developers, which employs best of C and objective C, without devouring any compatibility limitations, and putting a conclusion to the infinite loop errors. It has much cleaner syntax; auto managed memory and Inferred types make code cleaner and less prone to mistakes while modules eliminate headers and provide namespaces.
Playground makes writing Swift code more electrifying and simpler for the developers where they can write a line of code and outcome appears instantaneously. Another feature timeline, which exhibits variables in the graph, draws each step when constituting a view, enables developers to watch the progress of their code if it runs overtime, making whole experience pleasing and fun. Another feature REPL – Read-Eval-Print-Loop adds gem to the crown. This is the debugging consol within the Xcode which has an interactive version of the SWIFT incorporated. It will aid developers to use Swift syntax to assess and interact with the operating app.
Whenever a new programming language comes-up, most important area that necessities to be focused on is security and keep a check if the security of an app is not being compromised. With Swift, this slice is not much to worry about, as it is being launched under the umbrella of much assured brand Apple, which is always been cherished for its secure OS. Swift is said to eradicate entire class of hazardous code. Variables are always initialized afore usage. Arrays and integers are patterned for overflow, and memory is managed automatically. All these features and enhancements make Swift fast and high performing language. Nevertheless, all these good virtues are now just being talked about, asserted and projected to act as cited. However we hitherto experience the actual performance of this language and hope to see the better results as pronounced in WDC.
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