Swift (programming language)

Quality:

Swift - general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language. This programming language is the 42^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 41^st most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Swift (programming language)” in English Wikipedia has 76.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 121 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.02 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 41^st most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 42^nd most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “Swift (programming language)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Swift (programming language)”, its content was written by 516 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1306 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Swift is on the 41^st place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 42^nd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1097 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6467 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #20 in June 2014
• Global: #34 in June 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #760 in June 2014
• Global: #1632 in June 2014

There are 41 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Swift (programming language)		76.3672
2	Korean (ko) 스위프트 (프로그래밍 언어)		69.5467
3	Estonian (et) Swift		64.4871
4	Chinese (zh) Swift語言		59.0124
5	Portuguese (pt) Swift (linguagem de programação)		47.4432
6	Hungarian (hu) Swift (programozási nyelv)		45.2103
7	German (de) Swift (Programmiersprache)		44.8208
8	Turkish (tr) Swift (programlama dili)		43.305
9	Vietnamese (vi) Swift (ngôn ngữ lập trình)		37.583
10	Ukrainian (uk) Swift (мова програмування)		35.8855

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Swift (programming language)		5 227 164
2	Russian (ru) Swift (язык программирования)		960 151
3	Japanese (ja) Swift (プログラミング言語)		907 253
4	German (de) Swift (Programmiersprache)		591 337
5	Chinese (zh) Swift語言		465 435
6	Spanish (es) Swift (lenguaje de programación)		359 005
7	French (fr) Swift (langage d'Apple)		233 238
8	Italian (it) Swift (linguaggio di programmazione)		190 273
9	Polish (pl) Swift (język programowania LLVM)		115 527
10	Portuguese (pt) Swift (linguagem de programação)		104 707

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Swift (programming language)		13 956
2	Japanese (ja) Swift (プログラミング言語)		1 387
3	Russian (ru) Swift (язык программирования)		1 299
4	German (de) Swift (Programmiersprache)		888
5	Chinese (zh) Swift語言		634
6	French (fr) Swift (langage d'Apple)		578
7	Spanish (es) Swift (lenguaje de programación)		308
8	Italian (it) Swift (linguaggio di programmazione)		246
9	Portuguese (pt) Swift (linguagem de programação)		207
10	Polish (pl) Swift (język programowania LLVM)		177

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Swift (programming language)		516
2	French (fr) Swift (langage d'Apple)		90
3	German (de) Swift (Programmiersprache)		81
4	Japanese (ja) Swift (プログラミング言語)		68
5	Russian (ru) Swift (язык программирования)		60
6	Chinese (zh) Swift語言		58
7	Italian (it) Swift (linguaggio di programmazione)		50
8	Turkish (tr) Swift (programlama dili)		41
9	Spanish (es) Swift (lenguaje de programación)		37
10	Ukrainian (uk) Swift (мова програмування)		24

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) سويفت (لغة برمجة)		1
2	English (en) Swift (programming language)		1
3	Japanese (ja) Swift (プログラミング言語)		1
4	Korean (ko) 스위프트 (프로그래밍 언어)		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Swift		0
6	Belarusian (be) Swift		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) SWIFT (програмен език)		0
8	Catalan (ca) Swift (llenguatge de programació)		0
9	Czech (cs) Swift (programovací jazyk)		0
10	German (de) Swift (Programmiersprache)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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