With an open source Swift and support from Google, Android apps wouldn’t require that toolkit. All told, Google would have to effectively recreate its efforts with Java — for Swift.

Google is currently studying Swift to take much of Java's role, but if that is the case, it’s going to be a long road to Swift dominance.

Enterprise Java: Clouds on the horizon 2016 was a year of turmoil for enterprise Java, as Oracle put the brakes on Java EE, opting instead to reboot the platform for microservices and the cloud.

As Swift has come on strong for mobile app dev, IBM has committed to three primary programming platforms: Java, Node.js and Swift.

Apple has switched its password monitoring service from Java to Swift and Vapor and is now announcing a performance gain of forty percent. According to Apple, scalability, security, and ...

Google is so hacked off with Oracle's java antics it is seriously considering taking it out of Android and replacing it with Apple's open sauce Swift software. While we would have thought that ...

Fans of Apple's Swift language can now use their newly developed skills to write software for systems supporting both .NET and Java, including Android. The Silver compiler, currently in beta ...

The October edition of the TIOBE index measuring programming language popularity reports that Apple's Swift has made it into the top 10.

In another initiative, Apple has now open-sourced its Swift programming language. Apple launched Swift last year in order to develop apps for the iPhone, iPad, and other Apple products.

The language supports general programming for apps on HarmonyOS Next, Huawei's self-developed platform Huawei Technologies is set to open-source its self-developed programming language, Cangjie, ...