# Swift | | | |---|---| |Level:|Beginner to intermediate| |Skills Needed:|Willingness to spend time reading tutorials (which are widely available); no prior experience with programming languages required| |Platform:|Mobile (Apple iOS apps, specifically)| |Popularity Among Programmers:|Gaining in popularity, especially among Apple iOS application developers| |Benefits:|- Relatively easy to learn<br>- Clean syntax<br>- Less code<br>- Faster than comparable programming languages<br>- Open source| |Downsides:|Still a young language; poor interoperability with third party tools; lacks support for earlier versions of iOS| |Degree of Use:|Used extensively for creating iOS apps used on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch| |Annual Salary Projection:|$109,652| [^1] [^1]:https://www.simplilearn.com/best-programming-languages-start-learning-today-article ## Resources [[Resource Index|All Resources]] ```dataview LIST FROM [[]] WHERE !contains(fileClass, "Primary") and contains(file.folder,"Resources") Sort file.name ```