OSX Swift open URL in default browser

Question

How to open a url in system default browser by using Swift as programming language and OSX as plattform.

I found a lot with UIApplication like

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Answer 1

When using Swift 3, you can open a webpage in the default browser using the following:

NSWorkspace.shared().open(NSURL(string: "https://google.com")! as URL)

In the accepted answer above, you can also check a URL using Swift 3 by inputting the following:

if let checkURL = NSURL(string: "https://google.com") {
    if NSWorkspace.shared().open(checkURL as URL) {
        print("URL Successfully Opened")
    }
} else {
    print("Invalid URL")
}

I hope that this information helps whomever it applies to.