What kind of language is Swift?

OOP(Object Oriented Programming), a three lettered magical word on which almost all the modern programming language stand. SWIFT, APPLE’s trending language is no different from this. OOP concepts are the backbone of SWIFT .

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns. The goal of the Swift project is to create the best available language for uses ranging from systems programming, to mobile and desktop apps, scaling up to cloud services.

Swift is friendly to new programmers. It’s an industrial-quality programming language that’s as expressive and enjoyable as a scripting language . Writing Swift code in a playground lets you experiment with code and see the results immediately, without the overhead of building and running an app.

Swift is more similar to languages such as Ruby and Python than is Objective-C. For example, it’s not necessary to end statements with a semicolon in Swift, just like in Python.