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No. Swift the language is not to be confused with the iOS framework or tools. While more and more of iOS (and I presume XCode) is written in Swift, that all continues to be closed sourced code and is Mac specific.

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:'( still I wait, likely without end

Secretly most of the sales of macs and profits of iOS are from developers.

How do you know this ?

I assume it was a joke; it's not even a vaguely plausible proposition given Mac sales.

It was indeed a joke

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