# Install swift with Homebrew

High-performance system programming language. Version 6.3.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-13.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:swift
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install swift
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:swift
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 6.3.3
- **Source summary:** High-performance system programming language
- **Homepage:** <https://www.swift.org>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/swiftlang/swift>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-13T17:31:48+09:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- sourcekit-lsp (alias)
- sourcekitd-repl (alias)
- swift (alias)
- swift-api-checker.py (alias)
- swift-api-digester (alias)
- swift-api-dump.py (alias)
- swift-autolink-extract (alias)
- swift-build (alias)
- swift-build-sdk-interfaces (alias)
- swift-build-tool (alias)
- swift-cache-tool (alias)
- swift-compatibility-symbols (alias)
- swift-def-to-strings-converter (alias)
- swift-demangle (alias)
- swift-driver (alias)
- swift-experimental-sdk (alias)
- swift-frontend (alias)
- swift-help (alias)
- swift-legacy-driver (alias)
- swift-package (alias)
- swift-package-collection (alias)
- swift-package-registry (alias)
- swift-plugin-server (alias)
- swift-reflection-dump (alias)
- swift-run (alias)
- swift-scan-test (alias)
- swift-sdk (alias)
- swift-serialize-diagnostics (alias)
- swift-symbolgraph-extract (alias)
- swift-synthesize-interface (alias)
- swift-test (alias)
- swiftc (alias)
- swiftc-legacy-driver (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 6.3.3
## Project history and usage

Swift is an open-source, general-purpose programming language and toolchain centered on a compiler, standard library, package manager, debugger, and associated developer tools.

### Project history

Swift.org says Swift was published as open source on December 3, 2015, together with supporting libraries, debugger, and package manager, under the Apache 2.0 license with a Runtime Library Exception. The current swiftlang/swift GitHub repository is the main source repository for the Swift programming language.

### Adoption history

Swift began with Apple-platform development but Swift.org documents open-source builds for macOS, Linux, and Windows. The site emphasizes Swift as suitable for systems programming, apps, and cloud services, and its documentation page treats the package manager, standard library, core libraries, LLDB, and DocC as parts of the public ecosystem.

### How it is used

Package-manager users interact with Swift through the `swift` toolchain: `swift build`, `swift test`, `swift run`, and package manifests named `Package.swift`. Swift.org describes Swift Package Manager as integrated with the build system to download, compile, and link dependencies into products.

### Why package nerds care

Swift is important to package nerds because the language distribution includes its own build and package-management story rather than treating dependency resolution as an external add-on. Homebrew, winget, Scoop, and other package managers distribute toolchains or formulae, while SwiftPM defines the package format used by many of the surrounding Swift CLI tools in this batch.

### Timeline

- 2015-10: Public swiftlang/swift GitHub repository created.
- 2015-12-03: Swift language, libraries, debugger, and package manager published as open source on Swift.org.
- 2019-03-25: Swift 5 released, a major stability milestone documented on Swift.org.
- Current docs: Swift Package Manager manages distribution and use of Swift packages through `Package.swift` manifests.

### Related projects

- Swift.org documents the Swift compiler, standard library, core libraries, Swift Package Manager, LLDB, SourceKit-LSP, DocC, and the Swift book as related pieces of the ecosystem.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/swiftlang/swift>
- <https://docs.swift.org/swiftpm/documentation/packagemanagerdocs/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/swift.json>
- <https://www.swift.org/about/>
- <https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-5-released/>
- <https://www.swift.org/documentation/>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- generalized runtime or code generation signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: Package.swift

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/swift.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/swift.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation