Swift
Swift is an innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.
Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Linux.
Swift is designed to work with Apple's Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks and the large body of existing Objective-C code written for Apple products.
It is built with the open source LLVM compiler framework and has been included in Xcode since version 6.
On platforms other than Linux, it uses the Objective-C runtime library which allows C, Objective-C, C++ and Swift code to run within one program.
Apple intended Swift to support many core concepts associated with Objective-C, notably dynamic dispatch, widespread late binding, extensible programming and similar features, but in a "safer" way, making it easier to catch software bugs; Swift has features addressing some common programming errors like null pointer dereferencing and provides syntactic sugar to help avoid the pyramid of doom.
Swift supports the concept of protocol extensibility, an extensibility system that can be applied to types, structs and classes, which Apple promotes as a real change in programming paradigms they term "protocol-oriented programming"
In March 2017, Swift made the top 10 in the monthly TIOBE index ranking of popular programming languages and was ranked 11th at the end of 2017.
Employees
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Cody Swann
CEO
Since founding Gunner Technology, Cody has served the company in every aspect of business development and product development.
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Dary Merckens
CTO
From a contractor to a partner, Dary has been with Gunner since year 1 and embodies the meritocratic spirit and philosophy of Gunner Technology.
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Mahdi Huessein
VP / Engineering
Mahdi joined Gunner at age 18 and quickly rose through the ranks to become VP of Engineering
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Elena Villanueva
Developer II
From Sensors and Big Data to Media Queries and Form Validation, Elena has worked on pretty much anything you can imagine.
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Skyla Frye
Developer III
Skyla is Gunner's go-to engineer when it comes to evaluating new tech. She loves evaluating bleeding edge software and teaching her colleagues what she learns.
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Kayden Chan
Developer II
Kayden holds the Gunner Technology record for most straight hours worked at just under 70. He refuses to quit until the job is done and it's done right.
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Jeramiah Anthony
VP / Product Development
Jeramiah is a wizard at turning loose requirements into a firm vision with a solid plan.
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Manuel Orozco
Developer II
When the headphones go on, you know Manuel is focused and writing code. And his headphones are always on.
Projects
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