Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone, and it was a welcomed thing. Today, about 18 months after it was first unveiled—much to the ...

The Swift programming language was as close to a "One More Thing" as there was at the WWDC Keynote this week, debuting to significant cheers from the developers in the audience. Immediate reaction ...

Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C. Objective-C has won the hearts of many developers. It started as a programming language that ...

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 ...

Mac and iOS developers are taking hard looks at Swift, Apple's new programming language introduced this month at WWDC in San Francisco. Some urgent questions include whether Swift is good or bad ...

At its WWDC event on Monday, Apple made waves among the iOS and Mac developer communities with the announcement of Swift, a new programming language designed from the ground up by the company’s ...

Swift, akin to Objective-C but without the baggage, emphasizes speed and interactivity for building OS X and iOS apps Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern ...

You might think that Apple’s Swift is a programming language for macOS and iOS only. It’s a natural conclusion, as Swift is closely tied to Apple’s own Xcode development environment.

As promised, Apple has officially made its Swift programming language open source, making the project available through Swift.org. We are excited by this new chapter in the story of Swift.

So many things are optional that it seems like you can, at your discretion, write Swift code that would require a careful look to distinguish it from other programming languages. Indeed ...