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 ...

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 ...

Apple's Swift programming language will soon be officially extended to provide support for Android app development, according ...

Apple has a new programming language, Swift, ... Named parameters brought from Objective-C are expressed in a clean syntax, making APIs in Swift “even easier to read and maintain,” Apple said.

The language does away the more complicated trappings of Objective-C, and replaces it with a simplified syntax that’s easier to pick up, but still feels familiar.

The open-source Swift programming language first pioneered by Apple Inc. has risen to become the 10th most popular of all languages, according to an analysis by TIOBE Software BV, a company that speci ...

Apple's programming language Swift is less than four years old, but a new report finds that it's already as popular as its predecessor, Apple's more established Objective-C language.. Swift is now ...

A fast look at Swift, Apple’s new programming language For better or worse, Apple's new language lets you do things your way. John Timmer – Jun 5, 2014 8:08 am | 609 ...