Paradigms | Dataflow, distributed, grid, concurrent, scientific workflow, scripting |
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Developers | University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory |
First appeared | 2007 |
Stable release | 0.96.2
/ August 5, 2015 |
Typing discipline | Strong |
Platform | Cross-platform: Java |
OS | Cross-platform: Java |
License | Apache 2.0 |
Website | swift-lang |
Influenced by | |
C syntax, functional programming | |
Influenced | |
Cuneiform |
Swift[1] is an implicitly parallel programming language that allows writing scripts that distribute program execution across distributed computing resources,[2] including clusters, clouds, grids, and supercomputers. Swift implementations are open-source software under the Apache License, version 2.0.