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 ...

We tore apart Apple's 850-page iBook on its new, simpler programming language, to find out why Apple would introduce a new language--despite all the headaches it will cause.

Swift is a relatively new programming language, introduced in 2014, but it is designed to sit alongside existing Objective-C programs (which is what OS X and iOS programs used to be developed with ...

Apple's Swift programming language is now being officially extended to support Android app development through the establishment of a ...

Apple had until the end of the year to make good on making Swift open source, and now it has.The language, along with its compiler, libraries and debugger, are all open source.. Swift has been ...

Even if people aren’t immediately programming in Swift, Clem said there’s a new energy to the Apple developer community. “I think it is the best time ever to be an Apple developer,” Clem said.

Apple announced it is expanding its Swift education program the company kicked off last year targeted to younger students, called “Learning To Code”, now to high schoolers and community ...

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 ...

Since a few months ago, a debate has been going on within the Objective-C/Swift developer community concerning the lack of dynamic features in Swift and the importance that runtime programming ...