A Novel Language Bundled With iOS 8 - "Swift"

1. SI5. A Novel Language Bundled With iOS 8 - "Swift" As always, Apple entices its audiences with its enthralling devices, technology and innovative launches. This time, though not on the front facing, Apple has introduced its programming language ‘SWIFT’ for designing of apps and applications. The highlight is that it cuts across the barriers which were present with the reign of Objective C, the language in iOS devices. Considered to be a replacement for Objective C, but still holding firm support to it, Swift has proven to be a quick, modern, user friendly and simplistic approach to development. It is a bundled version with iOS 8, which recently got released. It has been receiving rave reviews from the developer’s domain, has proven to be an easy task for expert developers and a simpler, user friendly one to novice developers. It looks similar to Objective C but does not have the complexities of C programming. It is a language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, intended towards iOS and OS X projects. Key Highlights of Swift Shared Playgrounds There’s a new concept of a ‘playground’ which comes with Swift, through which you can instantly view the results of your written code, making it fun and interesting. This feature assists you to play around with your code, make it perfect to be able to shift it to your project. Quick and Controlling Code is transformed into native code because of use of the LLVM compiler and hence maximum output is availed from the iOS hardware. Innovative

2. Since Apple is known to give abundance of research and experience in what so ever it brings out, Swift is bundled with a state-of-the-art touch owing to its programming features. Instant usage Since Swift co exists with Objective C, it is ready to use, be it in a new application or an existing one. Ensures Safety With a focus on eliminating unsafe code, Swift takes safety measures like initializing variables, checking arrays for overflow and so on. Easier Code Writing Swift has simplified levels of programming and has extended its reach to less experienced programmers too offering features like Generics, Closures unified with function pointers, faster iteration, structs supporting methods, extensions, protocols. As is, any new programming language is bound to come with a few ifs and buts, so is Swift, since it still has not been given enough time to prove its worth. One of the significant limitations that has been observed is that, in absence of coding standards being adhered by an organization, writing code in Swift for iOS application development is simple but will not be easily readable. But, as time goes, it is bound to more familiar and emerge as one of the most successful programming languages that it surely is worthy of.