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 ...

Apple dropped a huge surprise at WWDC on Monday, as it announced that it’s built a new programming language for iOS and OS X called Swift. The new language — which is in beta until iOS 8 is ...

“It’s still native, it still compiles, but it’s a style of programming that a lot of people–especially backend developers–are used to.” There’s another facet to Swift ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When I spent time around WWDC this past week, one word was on everybody’s lips: Swift. Apple’s newly-announced programming language brings a number of benefits, and marks a ...

Apple has also made the Swift 3 Programming Language guide available on iBooks Store, so you can get up and running with the new features and syntax. As of December 2015, Swift 2 was open source.

Chris Lattner, the creator of and project lead for Apple’s Swift programming language, today announced in a mailing list email that he will be leaving Apple later this month. He will be joining ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. Last June, Apple kicked off Swift Playgrounds for younger ...

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 ...