The language is called Swift, and on June 2, Apple released a test version to coders outside the company, billing it as a faster and more effective means of building software apps for iPhones ...

Apple introduced a brand new programming language last year that’s meant to make coding an app for iOS or OS X easy to do, and today that language is taking a major step: it’s going open ...

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 ...

Apple’s in -house programming language Swift gets official support for Android. The company thus dares an unusual step into ...

Apple released Swift almost six years ago in 2014 and said it was a better, more intuitive way to build apps for iOS. Now Apple's App Store has over 500,000 apps at least partially written in the ...

Swift Playgrounds is an easy way to learn Swift programming and to test code inside of Xcode, and now the feature is available for iOS 10. Learn how to use the Swift Playgrounds app for iPad.

At WWDC '15, Apple updated Swift to Swift 2, and made the whole thing Open Source. Does that really change the game? That remains to be seen, but from what I saw today, it looks like it has potential.

At roughly 30 years old, Apple's Objective-C is a bit long in the tooth. Apple has thus introduced Swift as the new language for OS X and iOS application development. Here are 10 tips for getting ...

Swift developer Matt Massicotte, formerly at Crashlytics and Apple, has recently launched a GitHub repo collecting a number of useful recipes to make it easier to use Swift concurrency and solve recur ...