Swift 4.0 vs Swift 3.0 — Differences And New Features

Mind Studios
2 min readOct 6, 2017

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What should we expect from Swift 4?

The day Apple releases a new version of the well-known Swift language has finally hit us. What should we expect from it? While trembling of anticipation, we have decided to present a tiny overview of the fresh updates that will be present in Swift 4 version.

3 Swift’s cornerstones.

As a fantastic language to write code on, Swift has its own benefits, and is claimed to “outlive” the Objective-C language.

You are welcome to read about the main differences between Swift and Objective-C

Swift is fast, type-safe and very expressive. It could be used to write software on phones and tablets, desktops and servers — apparently, on everything that runs code. It welcomes you to play with it — with Apple’s learn-how-to-code Swift Playgrounds app or using Playgrounds in Xcode you get to see the results of your work immediately, no need to put your nose down into developing and running an app at first place. With every new additive version it becomes better and faster, and that’s the case with Swift 4 version. Ready-steady?

Another great feature that Xcode 9 possesses for Swift 4 — you don’t need to worry much about the upcoming migration and you will figure out why while reading this article.

Discover the new Swift’s features and language updates in our latest article Swift 4.0 vs Swift 3.0 — Differences And New Features

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