The head of programming at Apple suggests that you learn this programming language
Studying programming languages provides a wide range of job opportunities. Being a programmer is one of the professions where there is no unemployment, as there is a constant demand for these professionals, and considering how technology is evolving, it does not seem that it will change in the short and long term.
We can find a large number of programming languages on the market, with Python topping all rankings for several years, followed by C, C++, Java, C# and JavaScript, a ranking that varies slightly from month to month.
However, Apple's head of programming languages, Ted Kremink, is convinced that the programming industry must change and start forgetting about C in favor of Swift, the programming language that Apple launched 10 years ago.
- Swift, the programming language of the future?
According to Kremnik, Swift's security, speed, and accessibility make this programming language an ideal candidate to succeed C. As mentioned above, Swift has been on the market for 10 years and has received almost no changes since its launch.
According to TIOBE's ranking of the most widely used programming languages, Swift came in at number 17, ahead of Scratch, Visual Basic, PHP, Fortran, Rust, Ruby, and above Kotlin and COBOL.
A few months ago, the White House recommended that programmers start using more secure programming languages like Rust, Go, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, and of course Apple's Swift in order to reduce vulnerabilities on a large scale.
Apple claims that Swift is 8.4 times faster than Python. Apple’s programming language is designed to deliver the best possible performance, and its code is designed to be secure from vulnerabilities (remember, nothing in computing is completely secure).
By the end of this year, Apple is set to release Swift 6, a new version whose main goal, according to the Cupertino-based company, is to make concurrent programming easier and more secure, preventing code from being read and written to.
Apple initially released Swift so that developers of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS apps could have a safer, easier-to-use language on their devices that was optimized for their ecosystems.
However, having a programming language that is restricted to one ecosystem doesn't make any sense, which is why the company founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak has, in recent years, expanded support for its use on more platforms.