At last year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled a new programming language called Swift. This year it announced that this very program will be available in open source with a new version. Now this is a thing of joy for developers; a chance for the coders to enhance their creativity even more.
- Swift will also be open-source for iOS, OS X and Linux. This announcement was received with an overwhelming response.
- Developers have welcomed the change saying that Swift is the next big programming language that they are going to use while developing application & system programming in the future.
- Swift 2 comes with a ton of improvements like an error handling model, markdown in comments, availability checking, protocol extensions and a migrator from Swift 1.2 to the updated programming language.
- With Swift 2 the application can be made more powerful and developers can do many innovative things. Programmers can actually now look under the roof and may extend it too.
- The praiseworthy thing is that Swift is expanding beyond iOS. Developers can now use the language to create apps for OS X as well, and even devices that don’t run Apple’s software.
- The Swift 2 by the end of the year is getting some more interesting upgrades’ that includes support for new optimization technology, protocol extensions and much shorter compile times.