Bringing Swift to the Apple II (opens in new tab)

Swift is the modern programming language behind many apps that run on modern Apple platforms. I thought it would be fun to bring a small taste of it back to Apple’s early days, the Apple II. It was Apple’s first mass-market series of machines, initially released in 1977 with a 1 MHz MOS 6502 CPU. I built SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the original Apple II to a //e and up.