Swift (programming language)

Quality:

Swift - general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language. This programming language is the 41^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 40^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Swift (programming language)" in English Wikipedia has 67.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 116 references and 22 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 40^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 41^st most popular in programming languages.

In June 2025 the article "Swift (programming language)" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Swift (programming language)", its content was written by 496 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1256 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Swift is on the 40^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 41^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1092 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6249 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): #754 in June 2014
• Global: #1698 in June 2014

There are 39 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, 2025 (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)		67.5212
2	Chinese (zh) Swift語言		59.2282
3	Portuguese (pt) Swift (linguagem de programação)		47.7247
4	Turkish (tr) Swift (programlama dili)		45.4469
5	Hungarian (hu) Swift (programozási nyelv)		45.3047
6	German (de) Swift (Programmiersprache)		43.8938
7	Vietnamese (vi) Swift (ngôn ngữ lập trình)		37.6662
8	Ukrainian (uk) Swift (мова програмування)		37.5369
9	French (fr) Swift (langage d'Apple)		33.7998
10	Uzbek (uz) Swift (dasturlash tili)		31.5489

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Swift (programming language)		5 036 449
2	Russian (ru) Swift (язык программирования)		925 208
3	Japanese (ja) Swift (プログラミング言語)		886 037
4	German (de) Swift (Programmiersprache)		576 958
5	Chinese (zh) Swift語言		428 218
6	Spanish (es) Swift (lenguaje de programación)		353 306
7	French (fr) Swift (langage d'Apple)		224 431
8	Italian (it) Swift (linguaggio di programmazione)		186 274
9	Polish (pl) Swift (język programowania LLVM)		112 998
10	Portuguese (pt) Swift (linguagem de programação)		102 102

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)		18 262
2	Russian (ru) Swift (язык программирования)		1 872
3	Japanese (ja) Swift (プログラミング言語)		1 868
4	German (de) Swift (Programmiersprache)		1 551
5	French (fr) Swift (langage d'Apple)		1 039
6	Chinese (zh) Swift語言		950
7	Spanish (es) Swift (lenguaje de programación)		757
8	Polish (pl) Swift (język programowania LLVM)		439
9	Italian (it) Swift (linguaggio di programmazione)		415
10	Portuguese (pt) Swift (linguagem de programação)		306

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)		496
2	French (fr) Swift (langage d'Apple)		84
3	German (de) Swift (Programmiersprache)		80
4	Japanese (ja) Swift (プログラミング言語)		62
5	Russian (ru) Swift (язык программирования)		59
6	Chinese (zh) Swift語言		55
7	Italian (it) Swift (linguaggio di programmazione)		49
8	Turkish (tr) Swift (programlama dili)		41
9	Spanish (es) Swift (lenguaje de programación)		37
10	Czech (cs) Swift (programovací jazyk)		23

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	English (en) Swift (programming language)		2
2	Vietnamese (vi) Swift (ngôn ngữ lập trình)		2
3	Persian (fa) سوئیفت (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		1
4	Latin (la) Swift (lingua programmationis)		1
5	Russian (ru) Swift (язык программирования)		1
6	Simple English (simple) Swift (programming language)		1
7	Arabic (ar) سويفت (لغة برمجة)		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Swift		0
9	Belarusian (be) Swift		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) SWIFT (програмен език)		0

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

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