Can you use apple developer programs like swift or X code on a pc?

Apple's IDE requires a Mac & OS X.

Swift is open source and availible at: https://swift.org/

It doesn't look that there is a offical Windows download on the site but it should be possibile to get it to run, especially considering the recent support for Unix command line tools on Windows. I would recomend a bit of googling.

Xcode requiers a mac running OS X. I would highly recommend a mac that can run the latest version of OS X so that you can run the latest version of Xcode. Note that some of the tools used by Xcode e.g. clang (the C/C++/Objective-C compiler) are open source and can be run on other OSes. What Xcode gives you is access to the OS X frameworks (code libariaries) to e.g. build the app GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Also note that it may be eaiser to get tools like clang and swift running on Linux, rather than Windows, as Linux and OS X are more closely related - they are both Unix like OSes.

It doesn't look that there is a offical Windows download on the site …

There are (community) folks working on Swift for Windows but it’s in no way ready for normal folks to use. If you’d like to check on its status, or even help out, rummage through swift-dev looking for posts by Windows-related posts.

Also note that it may be eaiser to get tools like clang and swift running on Linux, rather than Windows, …

Swift for Linux is a lot further along, with official snapshots for Ubuntu available on the downloads page.

Finally, if you just want to play around with Swift, you should check out the IBM Swift Sandbox, which is pretty darned cool.

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