Ever since I was 12 years old and wrote my first program in the BASIC language, programming has been a passion for me. Even as programming became my career, it always remained more of a passion than a job, but over the past few years, that passion has waned. I was unsure why I was losing that passion. I attempted to recapture it with some of my side projects, but nothing really brought back the excitement that I used to have. Then, something wonderful happened! Apple announced Swift, which is an exciting and progressive language that has brought a lot of that passion back and made programming fun for me again. Now that Apple has released Swift for Linux, I can use it for most of my projects.
In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:
What is Swift?
Some of the features of Swift
How to get started with Swift
What are the basic syntaxes of the Swift language?