Swift Programming Language

Status: public · Confidence: medium (0.725) · Basis: verified_sources

## TL;DR

Swift is a general-purpose programming language documented by Swift.org for systems programming, app development, and cloud services. Its public documentation points to The Swift Programming Language as the authoritative language reference, and the project has been open source since December 2015.

## Evidence Notes

- Swift.org defines Swift's general-purpose scope and open-source project history.
- Swift.org documentation identifies the official language reference.
- The Swift language book is the project-maintained reference for language details.

## Further Reading

- [About Swift | Swift.org](https://www.swift.org/about/)
- [Documentation | Swift.org](https://www.swift.org/documentation/)
- [The Swift Programming Language](https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/)