This is the programming language recommended by the programming manager at Apple for you to learn

 

Studying a programming language provides a wide range of job opportunities. Being a programmer is one of the professions with no unemployment, as there is a constant demand for these professionals. Given how technology is evolving, this trend doesn’t seem likely to change in the short or long term.

The market offers a large number of programming languages, with Python leading the rankings for several years, followed by C, C++, Java, C#, and JavaScript. These rankings fluctuate slightly from month to month.

However, Ted Kremenek, Apple's Head of Programming Languages, believes that the programming industry needs to evolve and start moving away from C in favor of Swift, the programming language Apple introduced ten years ago.

Swift: The Programming Language of the Future?

According to Kremenek, Swift’s security, speed, and accessibility make it the ideal candidate to replace C. As mentioned earlier, Swift has been in the market for ten years and has seen minimal changes since its launch.

Based on the TIOBE index of the most used programming languages, Swift ranks 17th, surpassing Scratch, Visual Basic, PHP, Fortran, Rust, and Ruby, and ranking above Kotlin and COBOL. There is a growing trend toward adopting safer programming languages like Rust, Go, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, and, of course, Apple’s Swift to reduce vulnerabilities on a large scale.

Apple claims that Swift is 8.4 times faster than Python. The company designed this programming language to deliver the best possible performance while ensuring code security against vulnerabilities (though no system is entirely secure in computing).

By the end of this year, Apple plans to release Swift 6, a new version aimed at making concurrent programming easier and safer, preventing unintended code reading and writing.

Apple initially launched Swift to provide iOS, iPadOS, and macOS app developers with a safer and more user-friendly language optimized for Apple’s ecosystem.

However, restricting a programming language to a single ecosystem doesn’t make much sense. That’s why, in recent years, the company founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak has expanded Swift’s support to more platforms.