The Past, Present and Future of Swift

Last week I presented this topic as a talk at the fantastic MDevCon in Amsterdam, despite some technical issues, it was well received and seemed like a good topic to turn into an article, so here it is!

I’m excited about Swift for reasons I will expand upon later, but it’s mostly the shear enthusiasm it has attracted. In less than six months, here are the project’s GitHub stats.

I know GitHub stats aren’t always indicative of anything, but still, these numbers are impressive.

I will begin by traveling back 30 years to the 1980s.

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