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Swift remains in the top ten most demanded programming languages , while iOS apps are popular. According to Statista, in 2019, 1.84 million mobile apps were available for download on the App Store. And the number of iOS applications is growing every year.

Today, Swift programming language is not only a success story that Tim said it would, but it’s also going to be the future for iOS app developers . In fact, Swift has already captured the majority of the market since its arrival.

While the Swift community is growing fast, it is still significantly smaller as compared to any other open source language. According to the latest StackOverflow Developer Survey, only 5.1 percent of the 83,053 respondents use Swift.13 Eyl 2021

The language is actively deployed in iOS development, when building desktop apps for OSX, or even as a server-side technology, thanks to IBM. One of the reasons that Swift has become so popular over such a short period is probably the fact that it was made by Apple .

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. Swift code is safe by design, yet also produces software that runs lightning-fast.