In this section, we want to take a look at the development of Swift, from Fortran, a very old programming language, up until Swift.

The following diagram and the timeline next to it highlights well how Swift combines the best of numerous worlds:

It stands out that Swift was influenced by Rust, Ruby, Python, Haskel, and C#, making it a very modern language that copied some of the most loved features of the other languages.

Now, we have learned about the history of Swift and where its place is in the world of programming languages. Let's look at Swift's performance compared to other popular web technologies next.