Swift

Swift is a high-level, compiled programming language created by Apple as a modern replacement for Objective-C for building applications across iOS and macOS.

It features automatic memory management, strong static typing with type inference, protocol-oriented programming, closures, and generics, supports interoperability with existing C and C++ codebases, includes built-in package management, and compiles to native code.

• 🏠 Website
  • swift.org #111,896
• 🔗 Links
  • Wikipedia
  • Awesome Swift
• </> Source code
  • GitHub
• 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Community
  • Reddit Stack Overflow

📊 Rankings and Market Share

• Programming Languages
  • Rank: 22
  • Market share: n/a

⚡ Sites Built With Swift

We have data on 4 websites that use the Swift programming language.

The highest rated site using Swift is cocoacasts.com.

#	Website	Rank	Country	Language
1	cocoacasts.com	#520,396	United States	English
2	is-kushenie.ru	#859,316	Russia	Russian
3	dms-spb.ru	#2,447,586	Russia	Russian
4	prstar.ru		Russia	Russian

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best Swift alternatives.

Rank	Name
1	JavaScript Austin, Texas, United States An interpreted programming language and a core technology of the web, alongside HTML and CSS, used to add interactivity and logic to websites and web applications.
2	PHP A widely used server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.
3	C# Redmond, Washington, United States A high-level, statically typed, object-oriented programming language developed for the .NET platform.
4	Lua Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A lightweight scripting language designed primarily for embedded use in applications.
5	Ruby Matsue, Japan An interpreted, object-oriented, open-source programming language designed for simplicity and productivity, commonly used for web development.

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💬 Frequently Asked Questions

👉 See Also

• 💼 All technologies from Apple

🗃️ About This Data

• We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
• Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
• This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
• Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
• For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.