The Swift programming language is now available for Windows. You can download it for free and start programming.
Swift is a general-purpose programming language, open source, suitable for systems programming, mobile and desktop applications, and even cloud services. The Apple company behind it has announced that an initial version of Swift is now available for Windows 10. This means that tools such as the compiler and basic libraries are all available for the Windows 10 operating system.
Swift libraries allow developers to write powerful applications with ease and without having to worry about many of the details of the underlying system. With these basic libraries and Swift's flexible interoperability with C, it is possible to develop applications in Windows purely from Swift, taking advantage of the existing library body on Windows platforms.
At relevant announcement on its website, shows a simple application numbermachines written entirely in Swift. Built with the Swift toolchain for Windows, and with Visual Studio 2019 installed.
The Swift programming language was first announced by Apple at WWDC 2014, as a modern language that will eventually replace Objective-C as the primary language for construction applications for Apple platforms. Apple has since let the language run as open source software and has shared tools for them distributions Ubuntu, CentOS and Amazon Linux, macOS and Windows.
You can download Swift for Windows from the Swift Project website.