swift

Swift is a general-purpose programming language using a modern approach to safety and performance.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/swiftdocker/docker-swift

Library reference

This content is imported from the official Docker Library docs, and is provided by the original uploader. You can view the Docker Store page for this image at https://store.docker.com/images/swift

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• 4.0, 4, latest (Dockerfile)
• 3.1.0, 3.1, 3 (Dockerfile)
• 3.0.2, 3.0 (Dockerfile)

Quick reference

• Where to get help:
  the Docker Community Forums, the Docker Community Slack, or Stack Overflow

• Where to file issues:
  https://github.com/swiftdocker/docker-swift/issues

• Maintained by:
  Haris and Thomas (of the Docker Community), with the approval of the Swift Project

• Supported architectures: (more info)
  amd64

• Published image artifact details:
  repo-info repo’s repos/swift/ directory (history)
  (image metadata, transfer size, etc)

• Image updates:
  official-images PRs with label library/swift
  official-images repo’s library/swift file (history)

• Source of this description:
  docs repo’s swift/ directory (history)

• Supported Docker versions:
  the latest release (down to 1.6 on a best-effort basis)

What is Swift?

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

The goal of the Swift project is to create the best available language for uses ranging from systems programming, to mobile and desktop apps, scaling up to cloud services. Most importantly, Swift is designed to make writing and maintaining correct programs easier for the developer. To achieve this goal, we believe that the most obvious way to write Swift code must also be:

Safe. The most obvious way to write code should also behave in a safe manner. Undefined behavior is the enemy of safety, and developer mistakes should be caught before software is in production. Opting for safety sometimes means Swift will feel strict, but we believe that clarity saves time in the long run.

Fast. Swift is intended as a replacement for C-based languages (C, C++, and Objective-C). As such, Swift must be comparable to those languages in performance for most tasks. Performance must also be predictable and consistent, not just fast in short bursts that require clean-up later. There are lots of languages with novel features — being fast is rare.

Expressive. Swift benefits from decades of advancement in computer science to offer syntax that is a joy to use, with modern features developers expect. But Swift is never done. We will monitor language advancements and embrace what works, continually evolving to make Swift even better.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)
swift.org
Swift on Github

How to use this image

Start a REPL

Swift requires a little bit of extra security privilege to run the REPL. The following command creates an ephemeral container, attaches your terminal to it and starts the Swift REPL. A great way to try out pre-release builds!

docker run --cap-add sys_ptrace -it --rm swift swift

Pull the Docker Image From Docker Hub:

docker pull swift

Create a Container from the Image and Attach It:

docker run  -it --name swiftfun swift /bin/bash

To Start and Attach Your Image Later:

Start your image with name swiftfun

docker start swiftfun

and then attach it

docker attach swiftfun

License

View license information for the software contained in this image.

As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).

Some additional license information which was able to be auto-detected might be found in the repo-info repository’s swift/ directory.

As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user’s responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.