Swift is not likely to replace Kotlin or Java on Android in the near future, but some developers may find it useful for cross-platform projects.

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, Apple said, resulted from the latest research on programming languages combined with experience building Apple platforms. The language uses the LLVM compiler, with Swift code transformed ...

According to Apple, Swift will provide a number of significant speed advantages to developers. A complex object sort, for example, will run 3.9x faster than an implementation of the same algorithm ...

When I first learnt coding in the late 1960s it was a long, tedious process. I was at a school which luckily had an “in” with the Victorian Education Department and Monash University to use ...

Code Fellows switches its iOS curriculum to Apple’s new Swift programming language. by Blair Hanley Frank on June 3, 2014 at 12:34 pm June 3, 2014 at 12:35 pmBlair Hanley Frank on June 3, 2014 ...

In Swift 5.3, the code size is under 1.5x the size of the Objective-C version," notes Borla. Additionally, the application logic code size in the open-source SwiftUI app MovieSwiftUI has been ...

Swift could run on Windows and Android in the future, too. Apple probably won’t port it to other platforms itself, but other developers could now take that open-source code and do the work.