Apple has released version 5.2 of its widely used Swift programming language for writing apps for the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple's open-source Swift 5.2 programming ...

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Because of Swift's unique position at the heart of the Apple universe, says Facebook programming language guru Andrei Alexandrescu, all it has to do is "not suck." There's a certain truth to his ...

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Apple's Swift has far-reaching effects on all platforms, not just iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C.

What follows is our first take on the language itself, along with some ideas about what Apple hopes to accomplish. When NeXT began, object-oriented programming hadn't been widely adopted ...

Almost exactly one year ago, Apple released Swift, a new programming language promised to make it easier to build iPhone and Mac apps than ever before. Developers cheered from the stands.

The rapidly increasing take-up of Apple's Swift programming language was confirmed again yesterday with the publication of a survey that ranks the popularity of programming languages. In the ...

Apple introduced a boatload of new consumer features for OS X and iOS today, but one of the biggest announcements for developers could be its new programming language, Swift. Craig Federighi just ...

Apple seem very excited about something so very niche, but good for them, I suppose. It does seem like a novel way of setting out a programming language, so even if we’re not talking about Pkl ...