Apple Swift attracts a flock of coding tools

Apple’s Swift programming language rolled out to much fanfare in the spring of 2014. Since then, it has become a fertile platform for supplemental tooling, thanks to third-party projects ranging from an application server to a testing framework and a mobile form builder.
Built to succeed Objective-C, Swift has taken off in popularity, thanks in part to Apple’s decision to open-source the language. Language popularity indexes such as PyPL and Tiobe have seen dramatic rises for Swift,