Discovering Swift
The article discusses the Swift programming language and its role in mobile application development. While the author expresses a preference for other languages, they acknowledge Swift's recent capability to create applications for both iOS and Android. A list of resources for learning Swift is provided, highlighting various publications and materials available for developers.
- ▪Swift is a programming language that aims to improve mobile application development.
- ▪The author prefers languages like Java/Kotlin for mobile apps but recognizes Swift's new capabilities.
- ▪A list of resources for learning Swift is included, featuring books and official documentation.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/niamtokik/discovering-swift-3o94 |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T08:04:57.437Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T08:04:57.437Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 1302415) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Mathieu K Posted on May 19 Discovering Swift #swift #beginners #tooling #ios Is Swift one of those so called "modern" languages trying to fix what C gave us for good? Or just something else? Well, for the ones who know me a bit, "modern" languages like Rust or Go are not really my friends. Swift, in other hands, is trying something that annoys me: mobile application development. Mobile applications are generarily using Java/Kotlin or C++.
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