Swift Documentation and Installing Swift
I spent a lot of my career working as a Linux System Administrator and Network Security Administrator. These positions required me to compile and install packages from source. There are a lot of advantages to building packages from source rather than downloading prebuilt binaries. The biggest advantage, in my opinion, is that you can get the latest version without having to wait for someone else to build it. This allows me to patch my systems with the latest security updates without delay. With Swift, we are also able to download the latest code and compile ourselves without having to wait for someone else to build it.
In this chapter, you will learn:
- About the swift.org website and what it offers
- How to find the latest documentation on Swift
- Ways to install Swift
- How to build Swift from source with its full toolchain and package manager
In the previous chapter, we mentioned that Apple has released...
