5 Reasons Why Swift is the Language of Choice for Apple Development

Maybe is useful for more?

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Swift is awesome! It enables you to build applications for Apple platforms.

It has actually become something more than a simple Apple platform programming language. I’ll explain more about what I mean by that, and why Swift is a great programing choice in this article.

Why you might choose Swift

Safety and reliability

Swift focuses on safety and reliability. The language is designed in such a way that programming errors are reduced, leading to a corresponding decrease in crashes, memory leaks and stutters in the UI.

How?

Swift is a type safe language, which means we get the following advantages:

1. Blocking the ability to read from uninitialized variables
2. Arrays cannot be accessed beyond their bounds
3. Unchecked type casts are not possible

Swift uses optionals to ensure values are not nil when accessed, which can prevent crashes.

Automatic memory management reduces the risk of memory leaks, and Xcode has tools to help.