Swift: The Story Apple Never Told

Thank you Convex for Sponsoring this video. Try Convex Chef — an AI that builds your backend for you - 👉 https://convex.link/codesource Swift did not appear from thin air. It was a synthesis of ideas drawn from languages that had influenced Chris Lattner and his colleagues. From Objective-C it inherited interoperability with Cocoa and the dynamic features that made Apple’s platforms flexible. But Swift pushed away from the fragility of pointers and the silent pitfalls of nil. This is the story of Swift 0:00 Birth of an Idea 1:42 Laying the Tracks 3:24 The Keynote Reveal 4:25 Sponsor – Convex 5:28 Turbulence & Transformation 7:10 From Growing Pains to Global Impact