To give another example from the language guide, let's look at how you define an enumeration of the planets: case Mercury = 1, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune You only have to ...

The language still has a few rough edges, though. For example, Seattle-based developer Wayne Bishop of Galleries HQ pointed out that Swift allows users to choose whether or not to end each of ...

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 ...

Apple has introduced a brand new programming language alongside a brand new version of Xcode. Swift is a big deal for developers. The language includes loads of features third-party developers ...

Now Apple's App Store has over 500,000 apps at least partially written in the language, including Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and Square, and developers say most new iOS apps are created using Swift.

Apple's new Swift programming language has only been available for a few months, but iOS and OS X developers from American Airlines, Getty Images, LinkedIn and Duolingo are reporting favorable ...

Apple’s Swift programming language is enjoying a meteoric rise in popularity and gaining new followers at an unprecedented rate, according to a recent study. Swift has earned itself a Top 20 ...

Swift, the programming language used to create apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other Apple platforms, could be used to ...

As we noted at the end of our recent Worldwide Developer Conference overview article (“Apple Unveils iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite at WWDC,” 2 June 2014), Apple has released a brand new programming language ...