Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language developed by Apple, making it a popular choice for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS development. If you’re new to Swift or programming in general, this quick guide will help you write your first program: “Hello, World!”.

What You’ll Need#

You can run Swift code on a Mac using Xcode or in an online Swift playground. For this example, we’ll keep it simple and focus on writing code that prints “Hello, World!” to the console.

Writing Your First Swift Program#

In Swift, printing text is easy with the print() function. Let’s dive into the code.

// Hello, World! in Swift

print("Hello, World!")