Apple's new programming language Swift takes only 4 years to complete development

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Swift Creator Chris Ratner

June 5 News, according to foreign media reports, Apple's new programming language, Swift, from the beginning of research and development to the final release only for less than 4 years time. The creator behind the language, Chris Lattner, director of Apple's Developer tools division, Chris Ratner, according to his blog, that most of Swift's underlying architecture was developed by one person, while only a handful of insiders knew about it during development.

Swift language development began in July 2010, but it didn't get the attention of the Apple Developer Tools Department until 2013. Ratner said that the development of most of the early architectures was done by individuals alone, but by the end of 2011, some very good engineers had begun to contribute to the project, which made Swift a priority for the department.

Like other programming languages, Swift benefits from the hard-won development experience of other languages. The Xcode Playgrounds feature is Ratner's favorite and the biggest innovation that Swift has brought to Apple's development tools. This feature provides incredible interactivity that allows Swift code to be compiled and displayed in real-time while it is being written.

Ratner stressed that Playgrounds's function was largely inspired by the idea of Brettes Victor (Bret Victor), the light-writing platform and other interactive systems. While programming has become more populist and interesting, Ratner believes it will help Apple attract the next generation of programmers and even allow the university to re-establish the course content of computer science majors.

Ratner's ambitious goal was endorsed by Cregg Federigi, WWDC, vice president of software engineering at the Apple Global Developers Conference. The latter conveyed the great ambition of Apple to all the developers in the keynote speech-bringing the company's best-practice features into its software development tools.

"When Swift debuted, the audience exclaimed and was shocked. "Richard Reilly, VentureBeat contributor," said Richard Railly. But after the surprise, the developers immediately showed a keen interest in Swift. Only one day after the publication, e-books on that language were downloaded more than 370,000 times.

Ratner, who joined Apple in 2005, joked through the blog that Swift will be celebrating its four birthday next month.