Swift is a multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS development by Apple Inc. It is essentially the new go-to language for everything Apple. We are so excited to announce that DoSelect now supports Swift programming language on our script evaluation platform! Teams can now evaluate candidates on Swift in all their tests and sessions. Developers can create solutions in public hackathons using Swift. Isn’t that so great? :)

1. FACTS ABOUT
SWIFT PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE20

2. Developed for 4 years in secrecy, nobody
knew about it outside of Apple, which is
impressive
#1

3. SwiftissupposedtocombinethebestpartsofCand
ObjectiveCwithoutcompatibilityconstraintsand
providesnewfeatures.
#2

4. It can be used for products with iOS7 and
OSX 10.9 and higher.
#3

5. It supports many modern programming
languages like Closures with Function
Pointers, Generics as well as functional
programming patterns.
#4

6. Better type safety
#5

7. Better memory management
#6

8. Created by Chris Lattner, the same person
who wrote llvm
#7

9. First appeared in June 2, 2014
#8
2014

10. Swift 2 finally comes with built-in support for
checking API availability
#9

11. Development began in 2010
#10

12. It supports three access control levels for
symbols: public, internal, and private.
#11

13. An important new feature in Swift is option
types
#12

14. Swift 2.0 was introduced at WWDC 2015
#13

15. Safety is a core value idea in Swift.
#14

16. Apple wants your code to look beautiful and
natural.
#15

17. Enums are one of the best features
#16
ENUM

18. Statements do not need to end with a
semicolon like from Objective-C
#17
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19. The two biggest applauses this year were
when Apple announced UI testing support in
Xcode 7 and Swift goes Open Source
#18

20. Apple has combined both println() and print()
functions into one
#19

21. Swift is awesome :)
#20

22. Excited?
DoSelect now supports Swift.
Read more here:
http://blog.doselect.com/post/134983106223/swift-has-landed
Facts source: cribb.co