But according to Ted Kremenek, Apple director of languages and runtimes, programmers should be shaking off programming stalwart C++ in favour of Swift. “Swift’s safety, speed, and ...

Last summer, about 6 weeks after Apple introduced Swift, a new programming language designed to ultimately replace Objective-C as the language for iOS and OS X development, I wrote about how ...

A quarterly ranking of the most popular programming language found that ... doing these rankings. Even as Swift grew at an incredible rate, Objective C’s history kept it out in front of its ...

Apple's programming language Swift is less than four years old, but a new report finds that it's already as popular as its predecessor, Apple's more established Objective-C language. Swift is now ...

"We think Swift is going to be the next big programming language," said Craig Federighi ... said Stephen O'Grady, the co-founder of Red Monk, an analytics firm for developers.

After Apple unveiled the Swift programming language, it quickly became one of the fastest-growing languages in history.” True enough, Apple’s Swift saw a dramatic jump in popularity once ...

In a move that represents a significant shift for Apple—and for the tech industry as a whole—the world's most valuable company has open sourced its Swift programming language, freely sharing ...

Instead, the news that Apple was introducing its own programming language, Swift, got a full-throated ... s] a real pain,” says Alex Chung, the co-founder of Giphy, who has created multiple ...