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+## Prerequisites for Swift:
+
+    XCode, CodeRunner, VS code, AppCode are some of the IDEs you can use for swift programming language. 
+    
+    VS code is one of the IDEs you can use for swift programming language. Visual Studio Code is an open-source and free source code editor. This editor has various interactive features such as syntax highlighting and autocomplete with IntelliSense which provides smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules, debug code, review diffs, stage files, and make commits right from the editor, etc. An extension for VS Code provides support for the Swift language which includes completion lists, signature help, snippets, quick info, and goto definition. For working in the Swift environment, a user needs to have Visual Studio Code installed and then search for the Swift for Visual Studio Code extension from the command palette.
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+// Hello world in Swift programming language
+
+import Swift  
+print("Hello, World!")