A few months ago, Apple introduced Swift, a new programming language for creating iOS and Mac applications, which promises to make writing code easier, faster, and more interactive.
However, the new programming language seems to be aimed at a limited audience, as most can only speak hypothetically about Swift:
Although the coding tools are free, they only run on Xcode or Playground, which in turn only run on Apple hardware. However, if you're really desperate, this clever website lets you try out basic Swift code without touching the libraries.
This fact seems to be causing frustration in the programming community. In recent years, programming language creators have been trying to make their code run on as many platforms and computers as possible
Apple, however, never followed the same path as everyone else. The best thing would be to open source Swift so that it would be accessible to everyone, but that doesn't seem to be in the company's immediate plans.
