#swift

#swift

As a high-level description, Swift is an ahead-of-time compiled, memory-safe, multi-paradigm programming language. Swift uses reference counting for memory management instead of garbage collection, and has recently added support for limited lifetime analysis. Finally, Swift leans heavily on types with value semantics by leveraging copy-on-write. This enables powerful local reasoning, as value types are either mutable or shared, but not both.

The Swift Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a tool kit for developing Android mobile applications with Apple's Swift language. Instructions for getting started with the SDK, which was announced October 24, can be found at swift.org. The Swift SDK for Android opens avenues for cross-development and acceleration of innovation across the mobile ecosystem, Android workgroup member Joannis Orlandos wrote in announcing the release.

SWIFT - aka the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication - provides a messaging service that financial institutions use to move money around the world. The service is widely used but is slow because, as explained by ANZ Bank, SWIFT "doesn't actually move the money." "This means the instruction to pay and the movement of funds happen separately, often requiring a complex network of accounts and correspondent banks to enable a payment to be processed.

The Department of Defense is advancing efforts to streamline software certification through its new Software Fast-Track process (SWIFT), aiming to accelerate adoption while ensuring security.