Neil Kimmett at The Lead Developer New York 2017
summary
Introduced in 2014 and open‑sourced in 2015, Swift claims strong static typing, type inference that removes redundant annotations, and ARC for classes; structs act as value types while enums model weekdays and a small app is built that parses a birthdate (returns an optional via the trailing ? syntax) and uses optional binding (if let) to decide weekend or weekday. The language evolves via the Swift Evolution repo; server options include Kitura and Vapor and Swift on Linux runs in some production stacks.
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