The Swift Programming Language

Articles

• A Swift Tour— Explore the features and syntax of Swift.
• About Swift— Understand the high-level goals of the language.
• About the Language Reference— Read the notation that the formal grammar uses.
• Access Control— Manage the visibility of code by declaration, file, and module.
• Advanced Operators— Define custom operators, perform bitwise operations, and use builder syntax.
• Attributes— Add information to declarations and types.
• Automatic Reference Counting— Model the lifetime of objects and their relationships.
• Basic Operators— Perform operations like assignment, arithmetic, and comparison.
• Closures— Group code that executes together, without creating a named function.
• Collection Types— Organize data using arrays, sets, and dictionaries.
• Concurrency— Perform asynchronous operations.
• Control Flow— Structure code with branches, loops, and early exits.
• Declarations— Introduce types, operators, variables, and other names and constructs.
• Deinitialization— Release resources that require custom cleanup.
• Document Revision History— Review the recent changes to this book.
• Enumerations— Model custom types that define a list of possible values.
• Error Handling— Respond to and recover from errors.
• Expressions— Access, modify, and assign values.
• Extensions— Add functionality to an existing type.
• Functions— Define and call functions, label their arguments, and use their return values.
• Generic Parameters and Arguments— Generalize declarations to abstract away concrete types.
• Generics— Write code that works for multiple types and specify requirements for those type...
• Inheritance— Subclass to add or override functionality.
• Initialization— Set the initial values for a type's stored properties and perform one-time setup...
• Lexical Structure— Use the lowest-level components of the syntax.
• Macros— Use macros to generate code at compile time.
• Memory Safety— Structure your code to avoid conflicts when accessing memory.
• Methods— Define and call functions that are part of an instance or type.
• Nested Types— Define types inside the scope of another type.
• Opaque and Boxed Protocol Types— Hide implementation details about a value's type.
• Optional Chaining— Access members of an optional value without unwrapping.
• Patterns— Match and destructure values.
• Properties— Access stored and computed values that are part of an instance or type.
• Protocols— Define requirements that conforming types must implement.
• Statements— Group expressions and control the flow of execution.
• Strings and Characters— Store and manipulate text.
• Structures and Classes— Model custom types that encapsulate data.
• Subscripts— Access the elements of a collection.
• The Basics— Work with common kinds of data and write basic syntax.
• The Swift Programming Language (6.3 beta)— @Metadata { @TechnologyRoot }
• Type Casting— Determine a value's runtime type and give it more specific type information.
• Types— Use built-in named and compound types.
• Version Compatibility— Learn what functionality is available in older language modes.