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Swift

intermediate

The language of iPhone, iPad, Mac & Vision Pro apps.

Swift is Apple's modern language for every platform they make. It's fast (compiled, no garbage collector), safe (optionals kill null crashes at compile time), and expressive. With SwiftUI, building an iOS app has never required less code. If you want to ship to the App Store, this is the language.

iOS AppsmacOS AppswatchOS & tvOSServer (Vapor)App Store

0/8 lessons

Setup

iOS development requires Xcode, which requires a Mac. The language itself runs on Linux and Windows too — and Swift Playground on iPad is a genuinely good way to learn.

Bash

# Swift toolchain for Windows exists (swift.org/install),
# but you cannot build iOS apps on Windows.
winget install Swift.Toolchain

swift --version
swift run          # in a package folder

# Realistic options for iOS without a Mac:
# - Swift Playgrounds on an iPad
# - online: swiftfiddle.com