Whether you're a seasoned Mac/iOS developer or brand new to the scene, one way or another you'll have heard of Swift. The Swift programming language was first announced by Apple at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2014 and was intended to bring to the table numerous features from a multitude of other programming languages. Although not labeled as a successor, some feel that Swift was brought in to replace Apple's currently used programming language, Objective-C.
Apple had actually been developing Swift since 2010, a project originally started by Chris Lattner, who joined Apple in 2005 to work on the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) toolchain project.
Since its announcement in 2014, Swift has taken on many iterations, with the current release at the time of writing being version 5.1.
However, the first...
