As you can see, Swift is a big departure in terms of syntax, style, and paradigm from Objective-C. Swift was developed to move away from the C paradigm of programming where we need to wrap our heads around memory management, allocation, and deallocation. We went through some of the basic features of Swift and noted that Swift features more terse code, has made memory management, and is also fuss free, since ARC takes care of memory management for us in Swift. However, Swift is still in the beta stage at the time of this writing, so it can still be subject to changes in its journey to alpha and release status. Therefore, you can expect that some features will be added or removed during this period. However, the fundamentals of Swift will not be changed significantly, and I hope that this chapter has given you a better understanding of Swift and has prepared you for programming in Swift in the near future.

To find out more information about Swift, the best resource to refer to is Apple...