swift.org

Swift

Who runs Swift, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest programming language alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Part of apple.com
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Go

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Swift

Swift swift.org

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

Wikidata: general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language

Company
No imprint we could read
Part of
apple.com Runs this domain’s DNS
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Swift tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 6 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Swift’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Swift

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Swift, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Go go.dev Top 10K English 1 tracker

    The Go Programming Language

    Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.

    Compare Go with Swift →
  2. 02
    rust-lang.org English 1 tracker

    Rust Programming Language

    A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

    Compare rust-lang.org with Swift →
  3. 03
    kotlinlang.org English 2 trackers

    Kotlin Programming Language

    Kotlin is a concise and multiplatform programming language by JetBrains. Enjoy coding and build backend, mobile, web, and desktop applications efficiently.

    Compare kotlinlang.org with Swift →
  4. 04
    PHP php.net Top 1K English 1 tracker

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

    Compare PHP with Swift →
  5. 05
    Python python.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Welcome to Python.org

    The official home of the Python Programming Language

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  6. 06
    Lua lua.org Top 10K No trackers

    The Programming Language Lua

    Official website of the Lua language

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  7. 07
    Raku® raku.org English No trackers

    Raku®

    The Raku® programming language.

    Compare Raku® with Swift →
  8. 08
    ruby-lang.org No trackers

    Ruby Programming Language

    general-purpose programming language

    Compare ruby-lang.org with Swift →
  9. 09
    tcl-lang.org No trackers

    Tcl Developer Site

    scripting language

    Compare tcl-lang.org with Swift →
  10. 10
    JSDoc jsdoc.app English No trackers

    Use JSDoc: Index

    Official documentation for JSDoc.

    Compare JSDoc with Swift →
  11. 11
    PostgreSQL postgresql.org Top 10K English No trackers

    PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database

    The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database

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  12. 12
    mingw-w64.org English No trackers

    Introduction - mingw-w64

    A complete runtime environment for GCC & LLVM for 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64), and ARM64 Windows

    Compare mingw-w64.org with Swift →
  13. 13
    Svelte svelte.dev English No trackers

    Svelte • Web development for the rest of us

    Web development for the rest of us

    Compare Svelte with Swift →
  14. 14
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

    Compare Drupal with Swift →
  15. 15
    CodeIgniter codeigniter.com English No trackers

    Welcome to CodeIgniter

    The small framework with powerful features

    Compare CodeIgniter with Swift →
  16. 16
    Perl perl.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org

    The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.

    Compare Perl with Swift →
  17. 17
    R Project r-project.org Top 10K English No trackers

    R: The R Project for Statistical Computing

    programming language for statistical analysis

    Compare R Project with Swift →
  18. 18
    sqlite.org Top 10K No trackers

    SQLite Home Page

    serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)

    Compare sqlite.org with Swift →
  19. 19
    Symfony symfony.com English No trackers

    Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development

    Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.

    Compare Symfony with Swift →
  20. 20
    LuaJIT luajit.org No trackers

    The LuaJIT Project

    JIT compiler for the Lua programming language

    Compare LuaJIT with Swift →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Swift’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Swift uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Swift adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 1 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
40 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Swift’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

DrupalPostgreSQLJSDoctcl-lang.orgRaku®LuaPythonPHPrust-lang.orgGo