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title: "What is swift ?"  
description: "What is swift ?"  
author: "Sunil Singh"  
published: 2017-01-11  
updated: 2020-09-22  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/23167/what-is-swift  
category: "ios"  
tags: ["iphone", "ios", "iphone sdk", "swift", "xcode"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is swift ?

Swift is general-purpose ,multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by apple for iOS, OS X, watchOS ,tvOS and linux operating system. Swift is built with the LLVM compiler framework included in xcode 6 or later. Swift uses the Objective-C runtime library which allows C ,Objective-C ,C++ and swift Code in single program.

For more detail visit [https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH3-ID0](https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH3-ID0)

## Answers

### Answer by Sunil Singh

Swift is general-purpose ,multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by apple for iOS, OS X, watchOS ,tvOS and linux operating system. Swift is built with the LLVM compiler framework included in xcode 6 or later. Swift uses the Objective-C runtime library which allows C ,Objective-C ,C++ and swift Code in single program.

For more detail visit [https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH3-ID0](https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH3-ID0)


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