In 2010, Apple started developing Swift, a new programming language that would rival Objective-C in a few areas–specifically, type safety, security, and better on-hardware performance.

Apple’s newly-announced programming language brings ... interesting features of Swift is that it does away with Objective-C’s emphasis on declaring variable types. Now, developers don ...

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Parentheses are now required around the parameter types in functions. You can discover more about the new features in Swift 3.0 by reading The Swift Programming Language (Swift 3 beta) or by headi ...

Apple’s new Swift language is the first ... re moving toward not having hard type variables,” White says. He calls it a mishmash of a scripting language, with all the power of a compiled ...

When it comes to programming languages, it’s often ... performance in mind (according to Apple, Swift is 8.4 times faster than Python), its strong type system and more secure code reduces ...

Swift seems to get rid of Objective C's reliance on defined pointers; instead, the compiler infers the variable type, just as many scripting languages do. At the same time, it provides modern ...

This new language seems to be poised to replace Objective-C as the main programming language on Apple’s platforms. Swift will use ... it also features variable types like tuples and optional ...

Apple has officially released the next iteration of its Swift programming language, it’s now on version ... use and manage Collection types, it supports archival of struct and enum types and ...