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Things To Consider Before Choosing Swift For App Development

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Since its announcement in 2014 by Apple, Swift has grown to become quite a popular programming language for iOS app development. Swift is fast, safe and an expressive programming language. It has the ability to improve runtime performance through the ways of low-level optimizations. Swift seems to be very attractive due to its features still you need to consider a few things before choosing it for app development. Swift Binary Size Do you want your application to be binary size so that it becomes easy to be downloaded and installed by people? Then in that case you need to know the additional components which are embedded in it and how the bundle is structured. Compared to Objective-C, the application build on Swift is bigger as XCode embeds a swift runtime library in the application bundle. Until the time it stabilizes the ABI, Swift will keep on evolving. Apple keeps on embedding runtime libraries in the app to make sure the Swift version remains consistent throughout the versio